Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Duncan McMillan. "Notes sur quelques clichés formulaires dans les chansons de geste de Guillaume d'Orange." In Mélanges de línguistique romane et de philologie médiévale offerts à M. Maurice Delbouille, 2 vols. Ed. Jean Renson. Gembloux: Duculot. Vol. 2, pp. 477-93.

Assumes written transmission of these chansons de geste, denying both oral provenance and the statistical method for determining orality. His study of phraseology treats questions of authorship and text, much in the manner of the Higher Criticism of the nineteenth century.
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