Written and Oral Traditions in Hispanic Literature
FAIN: FS-10240-76
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Elias L. Rivers (Project Director: January 1976 to present)
To investigate sociolinguistically the relationship between the oral tradition and literary rhetoric in Alfred Lord's The Singer of Tales, Don Quixote, as well as the influence of classical Latin (humanistic) models upon written and spoken Spanish of the 16th and 17th centuries.