Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Heda Jason. "Precursors of Propp: Formalist Theories of Narrative in Early Russian Ethnopoetics." Poetics and the Theory of Literature, 16:471-516.

Reviews the works of Russian "ethnopoeticians" through the 1930's and provides an overview of the methodologies of Rybnikov, Veselovskij, Eleonskaja, Shklovskij, Skaftymov, Volkov, and Nikiforov. Contains a summary of concepts introduced by these scholars and a brief discussion of the reasons behind structural research in ethnopoetics.
Area: RU