"Medieval Spanish Epic, Ballad, Lyric, and the Serbo-Croatian and Russian Analogies: A Typology and Aesthetics of Oral and Related Forms," by John S. Miletich
This collection covers some twenty years of research (1974–1995) dealing with the principal genres of medieval Spanish literature, especially epic, primarily from a typological rather than genetic perspective, and focusing, above all, on the question of folk (or oral) style versus written style.
The approach within the context of medieval Spanish literature is unusual in that it makes extensive use of Serbo-Croatian-language folk texts and related forms and of Russian folk material to some extent as well, with occasional treatment of other traditions, such as the Old English and Galician-Portuguese, all of which are relevant from a particular theoretical standpoint. A reply to Albert B. Lord is also included.
The relevance of the Hispanic Prisionero in calling up the earliest known South Slavic ballad (the bugarštica) is also suggested.
Here are the contents:
1. The South Slavic Bugarštica and the Spanish Romance: A New Approach to Typology
2. Narrative Style in Spanish and Slavic Traditional Narrative Poetry: Implications for the Study of the Romance Epic
3. The Poetics of Variation in Oral-Traditional Narrative
4. The Quest for the “Formula”: A Comparative Reappraisal
5. Oral-Traditional Style and Learned Literature: A New Perspective
6. The Stylistic Differentiation of Oral and Written Literature: Current Methodologies
7. Medieval Spanish Epic and European Narrative Traditions
8. Elaborate Style in South Slavic Oral Narrative and in Kačić Miošić’s Razgovor
9. Shamanistic Features in Oral-Traditional Narrative
10. Hispanic and South Slavic Traditional Narrative Poetry and Related Forms: A Survey of Comparative Studies (1824-1977)
11. Oral Literature and “Pučka Književnost”: Toward a Generic Des-cription of Medieval Spanish and Other Narrative Traditions
12. Repetition and Aesthetic Function in the Poema de mio Cid and South-Slavic Oral and Literary Epic
13. Old English “Formulaic” Studies and Caedmon’s Hymn in a Comparative Context
14. The Mermaid and Related Motifs in the Romancero: The Slavic Analogy and Fertility Myths
15. On “Los cantores épicos yugoeslavos y los occidentales”
16. Oral Aesthetics and Written Aesthetics: The South Slavic Case and the Poema de Mio Cid
17. Muslim Oral Epic and Medieval Epic
18. Folk Literature, Related Forms, and the Making of the Poema de Mio Cid
19. Oral Style / Written Style in Ancient and Medieval Literature: Differentiation and Aesthetics
20. The Tradition of Croatian “Folk” Poetry of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Collected in Gradišće (Burgenland): Notes for the Comparative Study of Literature
21. Vuk’s and Kurelac’s Collections of Folk Poetry
22. Early Medieval Iberian Lyric and Archaic Croatian Folk Song
23. Notes on Kurelac’s Jačke, Songs of the Gradišće Croats
24. Folk Style and Written Style: A Reply to Albert B. Lord (1986)
25. The Earliest Known South Slavic Ballad (the Bugarštica), Folk Songs of Gradišće (Burgenland), and the Hispanic Prisionero
Series: Estudios de literatura medieval «John E. Keller», 16
ISBN: 978-1-58871-376-6 (HB) 410 pp. $60