Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Barre Toelken. "Context and Meaning in the Anglo-American Ballad." In The Ballad and the Scholars: Approaches to Ballad Study. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. pp. 17-25.

Sees "textual and contextual approaches not as opposed alternatives but as mutually enriching modes of critical analysis" (33) and suggests five "contexts" (the human, the social, the cultural-psychological, the physical, and the occasional) in which any given ballad might be evaluated.
Area: FB, US, BR, CP