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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 expanses of time and space or adapted in new contexts. 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 letter. Repeatedly they return to certain issues. Writing and orality are t mutually exclusive, and their interaction is t always in a single direction. Authors, whether they use writing or t, try to control the responses of a listening audience. A variable tradition can be fixed, t just by writing as a techlogy, but by such different processes as the establishment of a Panhellenic version of an Attic myth and a Hellenistic city's creation of a single celebratory history.Product Identifiers
PublisherBrill
ISBN-109004269126
ISBN-139789004269125
eBay Product ID (ePID)195288414
Product Key Features
FormatLaminated Cover, Hardback
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLiterary Criticism
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Date of Publication06/06/2014
Place of PublicationLeiden
Series TitleMnemosyne, Supplements
Issn0169-8958
Country of PublicationNetherlands
Edited byRuth Scodel
Author BiographyRuth Scodel (PhD, Harvard 1978) is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. Her many publications on Greek literature emphasize Homer and tragedy, including Greek Tragedy: an Introduction for Students (2010).
Series Part/Volume Number367
