Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Alan D. Deyermond. "Tendencies in `Mio Cid' Scholarship, 1943-1973." In Mio Cid Studies. Ed. Alan D. Deyermond. London: Tamesis. pp. 13-47.

Short review of early critical history, followed by a summar y of scholarship on editions, concordances, date, unity of authorship, identity of author, historicity, ideology, prosody, grammar, formulaic and thematic studies, numerology, mythical patterns, typology, the question of orality (pp. 30-33), literary crit icism, structure, folklore, characterization, the role of the chronicles, and comparative epic.
Area: HI, BB