Algunas observaciones sobre la atribución de autoría árabe del Cantar de mio Cid

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As a result of their findings, they produced what has come to be known as the Parry-lord theory of oral-formulaic composition.According to this theory, which has radically altered our approach to, and understanding of, the oral epic and genres related to it, the Serbo-Croatian epics were anonymous (i.e., they were not "authored" by any given individual, but instead, their plots were handed down orally among illiterate minstrels, from teacher to student) and, with each new recitation of the poem, they were improvised by using the technique of formulaic composition, rather than being memorized.When Parry and lord interviewed the actual singers, the latter all insisted that it was their custom to recite the songs literally, without changing the wording in any way whatsoever, but when recordings of their performances were made, it became apparent that each individual performance (be it by a given poet, or by a different one) was, in fact, worded differently from all others, and that the poems could be longer or shorter, including or leaving out episodes, depending upon the time allotted to each singer.In conclusion, it became obvious that these singers, being illiterate, had only a vague idea of what a word was. the researchers discovered, moreover, that the singers relied, in singing their tales, on a large number of word groups that could be repeated in specific metrical positions.these, Parry and lord called formulas, and came to the conclusion that the singers were speaking in formulas, rather than in individual words.by stitching together specific formulas, each of which had a given metrical value, in the proper order, they were able to produce metrically regular lines of verse.the findings of Parry and lord, which these two scholars discovered by directly observing the way living epic singers actually worked, set off a remarkable wave of studies on the oral traditions of numerous literatures worldwide, both on the epic and on related poetic genres.Specifically, Joseph J.

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