Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Roman Jakobson. "The Kernel of Comparative Slavic Literature," Harvard Slavic Studies, 1 (1953), 1-71.

In "The Common Slavic Oral Tradition" (24-36), he compares folk-meters from various Slavic languages, deriving common ancestors and discussing directions of development.
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