Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Pierre Maranda and Elli Köngäs Maranda, eds. Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition. University of Pennsylvania Publications in Folklore and Folklife, no. 3. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

A group of eleven papers treating different aspects of oral tradition (myth, ritual, folk drama, riddle, folk song, and myth in culture contact) from a structuralist perspective, principally along the lines of studies by Propp and Levi-Strauss. While all essays run parallel to oral theory, only Lomax and Halifax (separately annotated) confront directly the work of Parry and Lord.
Area: AI, SAI, AND, AF, JV, FN, US, HW, JP, SC, FB, TH, CP