Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Ronald A. Waldron. "Oral-Formulaic Technique and Middle English Alliterative Poetry." Speculum, 32:792-804.

Through an examination of fourteenth-century alliterative verse, Whallon finds, in the appearance of formulas and formulaic systems fulfilling metrical rather than aesthetic requirements, the "remains of an oral technique embedded in written literature" (794).
Area: ME