Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Robert L. Kellogg. "Oral Narrative, Written Books." Genre, 10:655-65.

Considers the rhetorical and textual impact of the pretense of an oral narrator in a written work. Describes the general features of true oral (as distinguished from written) narrative and suggests that there is "a complex series of gradations and transitions existing between the two" (661).
Area: AG, ME, CP