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Orality and literacy : reflections across disciplines /

"Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carlson, Keith, 1966-, Fagan, Kristina Rose, 1973-, Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : reading and listening at Batoche / Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
  • pt. 1. Questioning truths. Boasting, toasting, and truthtelling / J. Edward Chamberlin
  • Orality about literacy : the 'black and white' of Salish history / Keith Thor Carlson
  • pt. 2. Writing it down. The philosopher's art : ring composition and classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus / Twyla Gibson
  • The social lives of Sedna and Sky Woman : the textualization of stories from Inuit and Kanien'kahake Mohawk oral traditions / Susan Gingell
  • pt. 3. Going public. 'Private stories' in aboriginal literature / Kristina Fagan
  • From family lore to a people's history : Ukrainian claims to the Canadian prairies / Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
  • pt. 4. Subverting authority. Literacy, orality, authority, and hypocrisy in the Laozi / Gary Arbuckle
  • Unstable texts and modal approaches to the written word in medieval European ritual magic / Frank Klaassen
  • pt. 5. Uncovering voices. A tagalog awit of the 'Holy war' against the United States, 1899-1902 / Reynaldo C. Ileto
  • Telling the untold : representations of ethnic and regional identities in Ukrainian women's autobiographies / Oksana Kis.