Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

V.N. Toporov. "Folk Poetry: General Problems." In Current Trends in Linguistics, 12: Linguistics and Adjacent Arts and Sciences, vol. 2, pt. 3: Linguistics and the Verbal Arts. Ed. Thomas A. Sebeok. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 683-739.

Offers summaries of research and suggestions for future work in a number of related fields within oral literature: (1) folktale, (2) synchronic and diachronic aspects, (3) the problem of poetic language, (4) different levels of structure, (5) morphological level, (6) syntactic level, and (7) subject or motif level. An extensive bibliography follows.
Area: CP, TH, BB