Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Kenneth Adams. "The Yugoslav Model and the Text of the Poema de Mio Cid'," in Medieval Hispanic Studies Presented to Rita Hamilton. Ed. Alan D. Deyermond. London: Tamesis. pp. 1-10.

After a brief history of early research on the Yugoslav material, he compares the SCHS oral epic texts with the Poema de Mio Cid and looks for traces of oral performance in the latter. Concentrating on slips of the tongue, scribal errors, "flaws" in line construction, repetition, "stalling," and the prosodic properties of assonance, rhyme, and caesura, he finds parallel features and considers them evidence of an original oral text behind our manuscript of the Cid.
Area: HI, SC, CP