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Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World Canberra, Australia
Otros Autores: Minchin, Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Poetry in performance
  • The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly
  • The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck
  • Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready
  • Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer
  • Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel
  • pt. 2. Literacy and orality
  • Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor
  • Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II
  • Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo
  • The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
  • Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers
  • Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.