Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Paul B. Taylor. "Themes of Death in Beowulf." In Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays. Ed. Robert P. Creed. Providence: Brown University Press. pp. 249-74.

Considers the meaning of thematic repetition in parallelism and identification of elements, unification of the poem, and traditional resonance recalling previous thematic contexts.
Area: OE