Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Samuel G. Armistead. "The Mocedades de Rodrigo and Neo-Individualist Theory." Hispanic Review, 46:313-27.

Authoritatively enters the traditionalist-individualist fray, acknowledging the role of learned clerics in the transmission of Hispanic epic but maintaining that "what such learned, clerical intervention has to do with the origins and the essential nature of the epic poems in the multi-secular trajectory of their traditional existence remains to be demonstrated" (324). Understands the prior stage of epic as oral traditional.
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