Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

James D. Johnson. "A Note on the Substitution of Door' for Beach' in a Formulaic Theme." Neophilologus, 67:596-98.

Offers support for Renoir (1964) that the threshold of a door often functions in the formulaic theme of the "Hero on the Beach" as "a symbolic boundary between the lands of the living and the dead" (597).
Area: OE