Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Robert E. Diamond. "The Diction of the Old English Christ." In Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation for John C. McGalliard. Ed. Lewis E. Nicholoson and Dolores W. Frese. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 301-11.

On the bas is of formulaic analysis of the so-called "Cynewulf poems" (see Diamond 1959) and of Christ I and III, he pronounces the latter two poems not authored by Cynewulf (although they are themselves probably by the same poet). A kind of throwback to earlier for mulaic studies, e.g. Sarrazin 1886.
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