Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world

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

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, severa...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World Canberra, Australia
Other Authors: Minchin, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Subjects:
Oral communication > Greece > Congresses.
Written communication > Greece > Congresses.
Transmission of texts > Greece > Congresses.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Oral communication
Transmission of texts
Written communication
Greece
Conference papers and proceedings
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Summary: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 the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies include, amongst others, South Slavic epic and a text from the Sanskrit archive.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004217754
9789004217751
ISSN:0169-8958 ;

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