Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Elizabeth A. Warner. "Pushkin in the Russian Folk-Plays." In Oral Literature: Seven Essays. Ed. Joseph J. Duggan. Edinburgh and New York: Scottish Academic Press and Barnes and Noble, 1975. [= Forum for Modern Language Studies, 10, iii:pp. 101-7.]

Illustrates how literary materials found their way back into oral tradition with Pushkin entering the folk tradition. Characteristic changes include improvisation and the remaking of verses from the source (literary) play on the pattern of the folk meter.
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