Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Arnold van Gennep. La Question d'Homère: Les poèmes homériques, l'archéologie et la poésie populaire. Paris: Mercure de France.

This restatement of the Question from literary and archaeological viewpoints was read by and influential on Parry. Includes a description of the oral performance of long epic in SC (as conducted by F. Krauss) and of the singers' "memory" (pp. 50-55).
Area: AG, SC, CP