Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

George E. Dimock. "From Homer to Novi Pazar and B ack." Arion, 2, iv:40-57.

Reacts against the Parry-Lord hypothesis of an oral Homer, claiming that, although Lord demonstrated that the oral poet thinks in verse and offered many explanations of the various facets of the Homeric Question by recour se to the Yugoslav analogy, the difference between Homer and other, literate poets is one of degree rather than kind. Wants to rescue Homer's art from what he sees as the dangers inherent in the oral theory model.
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