单词 | oral-formulaic |
释义 | > as lemmasoral-formulaic oral-formulaic adj. Literary Criticism of or relating to (usually early) poetry belonging to a spoken tradition and characterized by the use of poetic formulae as an aid to memory. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [adjective] > oral or oral-formulaic oral1628 oral-formulaic1953 1953 F. P. Magoun in Speculum 28 446 (heading) Oral-formulaic character of Anglo-Saxon narrative poetry. 1972 T. A. Shippey Old Eng. Verse iv. 89 The theory claims that much classical and modern poetry has been composed by an ‘oral-formulaic’ process. 1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Dec. 24/1 Many of the essays are underwritten..by both refigured Derridean notions and ‘oral-formulaic’ theory. < as lemmas |
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