Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Melville Jacobs. "A Look Ahead in Oral Literature Research." Journal of American Folklore, 79:413-27.

After a brief description of folkloristic pursuits since the mid-nineteenth century, he calls for a new systematic discipline of folklore based on the stylistic features of expressive content rather than on the content itself. Also contends that any collecting, taxonomy, or analysis must be founded in fieldwork.
Area: FK, TH