Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Stanley B. Greenfield. "The Canons of Old English Criticism." English Literary History, 34:141-55.

Disagrees with Creed (1959) on the remaking of the passage from Beowulf, with Whallon (1965a) on the meaning of traditional epithets in OE, and with Cassidy (1965) on the concept of syntactic frames in oral-formulaic composition. The role of aesthetics in a formulaically composed poem remains his primary concern (see further Greenfield 1963 and 1967b).
Area: OE