Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Eda L. Walton. "Navajo Song Patterning." Journal of American Folklore, 43:105-18.

With the opening assertion that "Navajo patterns are as important in poetic composition to the Navajo Indian's mind as is any English verse-form to an English poet" (105), she proceeds to study parallelism of various kinds in oral material, many of which techniques would be considered formulaic by later investigators.
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