Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Carlo Gallavotti. "I documenti micenei e la poesia omerica." In Atti del Convegno Internaizionale sul Tema: La Poesia epica e la sua formazione. Problemi Attuali di Scienze e di Cultura, no. 139. Ed. Enrico Cerulli et al. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. pp. 79-89.

Aware of the work by Parry, Murko, and others, and in the course of considering the possibility of an original Mycenaean source for the Homeric poems, he weighs the likelihood of the AG epic as oral traditional. Although he admires Parry's linguistic demonstrations, he cannot make the leap to "traditional" and "oral" without qualifications, among them comparisons to the (supposedly literate) OE Beowulf and OF Chanson de Roland.
Area: AG, OE, OF, SC, CP