Sienaert, Edgard Richard.Hersalek, Gloria.2013-03-112013-03-1119971997http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8676Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1997.The thesis is a description and analysis of the oral style devices on four collections undertaken by G.Beutler, G. de Granda, F. Dougherty and G. Hersalek in Colombia. Themes and their transmitters are analysed. Oral features such as formulas, the uses of repetition and parallelism as well as variability are explored in individual chapters which are illustrated with Colombian texts. The thesis consists of an introduction to the theme of the Oral Spanish Balladry and its collections; a summarized description of the primary sources; an annotated transcription of our compilation of texts in the department of Boyaca and five chapters of analysis and description of oral style mechanisms. Charts showing the themes collected in Colombia and the number, gender and age of its repositories are included. Maps indicate the departments in Colombia where those themes were found. Graphs have the purpose to show a clearer perspective on the distribution of the Spanish Balladry in Colombia, thus, offering a guide for new researchers. This analysis shows that the Colombian transmitters have made use both of the oral style devices inherited from Spain as well as their own initiative that has produced innovations at different levels in this tradition.otherBallads, Spanish--History and criticism.Oral tradition--Colombia.Spanish poetry--Colombia--History and criticism.Folk poetry, Spanish--Colombia--History and criticism.Theses--Orality-literacy studies.Thesis