| dc.contributor.author | Webber, Ruth House | eng |
| dc.date.issued | 1986-05 | eng |
| dc.description | Hispanic oral literature, together with the Portuguese which should not be separated from it, encompasses a great chronological as well as geographical span, since it is an integral part of the cultural heritage that has accompanied the Spanish and Portuguese people over the centuries wherever they have chanced to establish themselves. Scholarly interest has focused primarily upon two oral genres, the epic and the ballad, while the lyric and the folktale have been accorded less attention, and the proverb almost none at all. The total amount of material published, particularly on the epic and ballad, is enormous. The last decade or so has produced a veritable explosion of critical interest in these traditional forms. After establishing the critical background, we have tried to include here studies that either make a significant contribution or are representative of a certain method or approach. This means that many fine studies are not mentioned solely because of limitations of space. It will be observed that not all of this work has been carried out by oralists. In the belief that good basic research is of value to all, no matter what a particular scholar's theoretical persuasion may be, a number of items have been cited that were destined to support other points of view.--Page 344. | eng |
| dc.description | Ruth House Webber (University of Chicago, Emerita) was the first to introduce the scholarship of Parry and Lord to Spanish medieval literature in 1951. She is author of a long and distinguished series of articles and monographs on the oral traditional forms of epic and ballad, especially in relation to questions of style and narrative structure. | eng |
| dc.format.extent | 37 pages | eng |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oral Tradition, 1/2 (1986): 344-80. | eng |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/64015 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
| dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
| dc.title | Hispanic Oral Literature: Accomplishments and Perspectives | eng |
| dc.type | Article | eng |
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