Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Dennis Tedlock. "Toward an Oral Poetics." New Literary History, 8:507-19.

Argues against the structural analysis of dead-language oral texts and for an oral poetics that takes into account social context and performance aspects gleaned via fieldwork. Mentions the experimental transcription of paratextual features in Alcheringa/Ethnopoetics (Rothenberg-Tedlock 1970 et seq.).
Area: CP, TH