This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cul…
"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, s…
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, …
Between Orality and Literacy: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 10
by Scodel, Ruth, Scodel, Ruth, International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius' Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical le…
The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius' Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical le…
The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide e…