Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world

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The ninth meeting in the international Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World series - in the fiftieth year since the publication in 1960 of Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales - took as its theme 'Composition and Performance'. This volume contains a selection of those papers, several of which illustrate methodologically innovative approaches to the act of composition, the nature of performance, and vocalization in text. Under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, the orators of t…

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Full title :Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world / edited by Elizabeth Minchin.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9004217754, 9789004217751
oclc:ocn772593026
LC Classification:P92.G75
Dewey Decimal:880.9/001

pt. 1. Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer -- Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel -- pt. 2. Literacy and orality -- Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor -- Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II -- Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo -- The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet -- Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers -- Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.

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Communication écrite -- Congrès. -- Grè… Communication orale -- Congrès. -- Grèce Conference papers and proceedings Greece LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classic… Oral communication Oral communication -- Congresses. -- Gr… Transmission de textes -- Congrès. -- G… Transmission of texts Transmission of texts -- Congresses. --… Written communication Written communication -- Congresses. --…