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Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome /

Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956-, Parker, Holt N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Writing, reading, public and private "literacies" : functional literacy and democratic literacy in Greece / Rosalind Thomas
  • Literacy or literacies in Rome? / Greg Woolf
  • Reading, hearing, and looking at Ephesos / Barbara Burrell
  • The anecdote : exploring the boundaries between oral and literate performance in the second sophistic / Simon Goldhill
  • Situating literacy at Rome / Thomas Habinek
  • The corrupted boy and the crowned poet : or, the material reality and the symbolic status of the literary book at Rome / Florence Dupont
  • The impermament text in Catullus and other Roman poets / Joseph Farrell
  • Books and reading Latin poetry / Holt N. Parker
  • Papyrological evidence for book collections and libraries in the Roman empire / George W. Houston
  • Bookshops in the literary culture of Rome / Peter White
  • Literary literacy in Roman Pompeii : the case of Vergil's Aeneid / Kristina Milnor
  • Constructing elite reading communities in the high empire / William A. Johnson
  • Literacy studies in classics : the last twenty years / Shirley Werner
  • Why literacy matters, then and now / David R. Olson.