Written and Oral Traditions in Hispanic Literature

FAIN: FS-10540-77

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Elias L. Rivers (Project Director: January 1977 to present)

The seminar will be a sociolinguistic investigation of the relationship between the oral tradition and literary rhetoric in a number of familiar Hispanic texts. The seminar will first consider general theoretical questions concerning the difference between written and oral language followed by an examination of selected Spanish and Spanish-American works.