>I' m looking for studies on alterations done by editors on oral poetry
>texts, namely on ballads. Can you oblige?
>Very grateful in advance,
>J. J. Dias Marques
This seems to have happened all the time to the huge 16th-century
Spanish collections of ballads. I don't think there's a book
specifically on this, but introductions to the modern editions of e.g.
Timoneda's or Mart'in Nucio's collections will have interesting things
to say - RW
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