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Phrasikleia : An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece /

First published in French in 1988, this extraordinary book traces the meaning and function of reading from its very beginnings in Greek oral culture through the development of silent reading. One of the most haunting early examples of Greek alphabetical writing appears on the life-sized Archaic fune...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Svenbro, Jesper, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Gregory Nagy
  • 1. Phrasikleia: From Silence to Sound
  • 2. I Write, Therefore I Efface Myself: The Speech-Act in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions
  • 3. The Reader and the Reading Voice: The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud
  • 4. The Child as Signifier: The "Inscription" of the Proper Name
  • 5. The Writer's Daughter: Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors
  • 6. Nomos, "Exegesis," Reading: The Reading Voice and the Law
  • 7. True Metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides
  • 8. Death by Writing: Sappho, the Poem, and the Reader
  • 9. The Inner Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading
  • 10. The Reader and the eromenos: The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing.