Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Jean-Claude Delclos. "Encore le prologue des Lais de Marie de France." Le Moyen äge, 90:223-32.

Suggests the impo rtance of understanding Marie de France's allusion to the Ancients in the context of the Prologue, in which verses 9-22 explain her purpose in writing the Lais. She does not conceal the oral character of the ancient songs she has heard in the recitiation s which inspiried her, but affirms that they are equal in age, truth, and richness to her Latin sources.
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