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The 26 pages that link to Oral-formulaic composition, each with the reason it gives.

• Epic poetryRelated: Its repeated formulas helped singers compose and remember long narratives.

• OdysseyRelated: Repeated epithets and formulas connect the poem to traditions of oral composition and performance.

• PaliRelated: Formulaic patterns in Pali texts can illuminate their oral composition and transmission.

• Elias LönnrotRelated: It helps explain how singers could vary inherited poems without reciting fixed texts.

• GriotsRelated: Formulaic language helps performers sustain long narratives while adapting them to an occasion.

• Dactylic hexameterRelated: Formulaic language helped poets compose extended hexameter narratives in performance.

• Oral-formulaic theoryRelated: This is the compositional process that the theory proposes, rather than the theory explaining it.

• FolktaleRelated: Formulaic language can help storytellers recall and reshape long narratives.

• TheogonyRelated: Its repeated epithets and genealogical catalogues reflect traditions of oral epic.

• Icelandic sagasRelated: Debates about oral inheritance ask whether saga conventions preserve older performance practices or chiefly reflect written composition.

• Pre-Islamic Arabic poetryRelated: Recurring expressions could support memorization and performance across generations.

• Sumerian literatureRelated: Repetition and formulaic language may illuminate features of Sumerian poetic style.

• African oral literatureRelated: Formulaic phrasing helps performers shape extended works without fixed written scripts.

• European folkloreRelated: Formulaic techniques help performers shape inherited material in live performance.

• Works and DaysRelated: Its features help explain the poem’s place in an early Greek poetic tradition.

• Cantar de mio CidRelated: Its framework helps explain recurring phrases and features associated with oral performance.

• Epic of ManasRelated: Formulaic resources help performers sustain long narratives while adapting them.

• Imru' al-QaisRelated: It offers one way to explain how long poems could persist before being written down.

• Book of Dede KorkutRelated: Repeated epithets and scene patterns reflect techniques associated with oral epic performance.

• Zuhayr ibn Abi SulmaRelated: It helps explain how pre-Islamic odes circulated and were preserved before written collection.

• Proto-Indo-European mythologyRelated: Shared poetic formulas can preserve inherited religious language across descendant traditions.

• Rav AshiRelated: It offers one framework for understanding how extensive rabbinic discussions circulated before and during compilation.

• Sirat Bani HilalRelated: Formulaic language helps singers sustain long narrative performances from memory.

• Adi ibn ZaydRelated: It provides context for how early Arabic verse could be composed and transmitted before widespread writing.

• Amr ibn KulthumRelated: Recurring poetic language helps explain how long odes could be performed and transmitted.

• Epic of King GesarRelated: Formulaic language can help performers sustain long tellings without a fixed script.