Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Peter F. Dembowski. "Interprétation des mobiles chez les héros de la chanson de geste." In Actele celui de-al XII-lea Congres International de Linguistica` si Filologie Romanica`, vol 2. Ed. Alexandra Rosetti. Bucharest: Editure Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania`. pp. 19-27. "Discussion," pp. 27-28.

Although he credits Rychner (1955) with valuable insights into structure, transmission, and oral traditional features, he calls for scholars to admit that solving the problem of origins is impossible and to direct their attention instead to textual patterns such as guerre/victoire, trahison/chaâtiment, and conflit/réconciliation.
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