Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Melville Jacobs. The Content and Style of an Oral Literature: Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 3rd pr. 1971.

Although not directly related to Parry-Lord investigation, this presentation and analysis of oral tales offers a great deal of evidence of multiformity typical of traditional oral tale-telling in other cultures (see espec. "Stylized Devices and Motifs," pp. 220-65).
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