Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Manuel Alvar López. El Romancero: tradicionalidad y pervivencia. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta.

Using the ideas of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, he attempts to establish the Spanish intellectual roots of the study of the romancero. Also seeks the historical sources of the poetic tradition prior to the Middle Ages. Among other subjects, he looks at Moorish elements in the Iberian romance and the Sephardic tradition, from which he traces the work of García Lorca.
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