Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Bruce A. Rosenberg. "Oral Literature in the Middle Ages." In Oral Traditional Literature: A Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord. Ed. John Miles Foley. Columbus: Slavica Publishers. Rpt. 1983. pp. 440-50.

Champions the importance of folktale analysis in interpreting medieval texts and notes the variety of forms in oral literature and the need for additional work by field ethnographers, linguists, and psychologists.
Area: OE, FK, CP, TH