New Directions in Oral Theory (Hardback)
Essays on Ancient and Medieval Literatures
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780866983303
Published: 28th February 2005
Casemate UK Academic
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In this volume, a group of leading classicists and medievalists interrogates the complex ways in which oral and literate culture intersect with and shape one another’s contours. Rejecting the view that orality and literacy are mutually exclusive and contradictory cultural forces, these essays focus on the mix of oral and literate poetics discoverable in a wide range of ancient and medieval texts. In the explorations of texts produced in cultures situated at various points along the oral-literate continuum, the authors reveal how deeply and inextricably intertwined orality and literacy are, and they further demonstrate just how supple and powerful an interpretive tool contemporary oral theory is.
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