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The Ethnography of Rhythm : Orality and Its Technologies /

"Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"--Core ideas of modern literary theory-were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saussy, Haun, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Figures; Introduction: Weighing Hearsay; 1 Poetry Without Poems or Poets; 2 Writing as (One Form of) Notation; 3 Autography; 4 The Human Gramophone; 5 Embodiment and Inscription; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z