The Ethnography of Rhythm : Orality and Its Technologies /

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"A history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
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.
Subjects:
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Folk literature > History and criticism.
Storytelling.
Orality in literature.
Poetics.
Oral tradition.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Weighing Hearsay
  • 1. Poetry Without Poems or Poets
  • "Two or Three Hundred Rhythmic Formulae
  • Festivals of Rhythm
  • The Oral Style
  • Formula as System
  • Langue, Parole, and Constraint
  • 2. Writing as One Form of Notation
  • The Epic Cyborg
  • "Word for Word"
  • Stitches in Time
  • 3. Autography
  • The Inscribing Ear
  • "Speech is a Movement"
  • The Patois of Parnassus
  • A Difference of Fifteen Cycles
  • 4. The Human Gramophone
  • "Errores Modernistarum"
  • The Gospel of Movement
  • A Bone Gallery
  • "Four Obscure Jews"
  • Gallo-Galilean Civilization
  • 5. Embodiment and Inscription
  • Materials Science
  • Techniques of the Body
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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