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THE SINGER OF TALES AND MEDIAEVAL SPANISH EPIC

1965; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1475382652000342001

1469-3550

Alan D. Deyermond,

Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

Dr L. P. Harvey's recent article is the first attempt to assess the relevance of recent work on oral-formulaic poetry to the study of mediaeval Spanish epic. Investigation of modern Yugoslav oral petry was begun in the early 1930s by Milman Parry, and continued after Parry's death by Albert B. Lord, whose book The Singer of Tales (Cambridge, Mass., 1960) summarizes the results so far. Parry and Lord were chiefly concerned with the effect of their investigations on Homeric scholarship, but Lord includes in his book a chapter on mediaeval epic with, as Harvey says, two almost casual references to the Cantar de Mio Cid. At the same time, there have been attempts to apply Lord's methods, which had previously been outlined in a number of articles, to Anglo-Saxon and French material.