books about: orality     books:       Literacy and Orality Cambridge University Press, 1991 In this study of the social and psychological implications of literacy, sixteen distinguished scholars provide a sustained and detailed examination of the relations between orality and literacy, the traditions based on them, the functions served by them, and the psychological and linguistic processes recruited and enhanced by them. By shedding the romantic view that literacy is the road to rationality and modernity, the volume provides a more ...             The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present2 reviews Eric A. Havelock Yale University Press, 1988 A Literate Revolution Havelock presents a picture of the crisis that occurred in Greece when orality transformed itself into literacy. He brings all of his previous works to conclusion in a single perspective covering the Greek literate revolution, the way in which the transformation took place, what it signified at the time, and what it has meant since. Where in earlier works Havelock posits that Homer's two epics ...             Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2006 This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story performance, and cultural memory. Contributors include: John Miles Foley Martin Jaffee Jonathan A.Draper Ellen Aitken Holly Hearon Vernon K. Robbins Whitney Shiner Jan Assmann Jens Schroeter Richard A. Horsley.             Orality and Literacy (New Accents)9 reviews Walter J. Ong Routledge, 2002 Stop reading and listen to this! I wish I hadn't read this book... but heard it, for this is a book that deserves the delight that comes from the immediate business of listening to sounds in the air rather than the abstracted business of reading marks on a page (or dulled spots on a screen). In it, Walter Ong makes a valiant attempt to take us back to a time before text, to a place where we might imagine language as something ...             Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of ... Mario Carpo The MIT Press, 2001 Co-winner of the 2003 Spiro Kostof Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process of recording and transmitting this body of knowledge has reflected the dominant information technologies ...             Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery Doveanna S. Fulton State University of New York Press, 2006 Analyzes Black women?s rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.             Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (Key Themes in Ancient History) Rosalind Thomas Cambridge University Press, 1992 This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient Greece. It sets the significance of written and oral communication as much as possible in their social and historical context, and stresses the ...             Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, And Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand (Southeast ... Daniel M. Veidlinger University of Hawaii Press, 2006 How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm-leaf manuscripts, he traces ...             Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (New Accents)8 reviews Walter J. Ong Routledge, 1982 Excellent book - fascinating content with clear form I recently became interested in media in their own right. I tried reading McLuhan, but found him to be dazzling and frustrating - he would drop these little sound bites and then move on. I wanted a more in depth exploration of media. McLuhan brought to my attention how media are not just passive carriers of content, but powerfully shape and influence it. Even more startling, he stated that ...             Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy (Advances in Discourse Processes , Vol 9) Ablex Publishing, 1982 As discourse analysis has turned linguistic attention to texts, it is crucial to understand the relationship between various kinds of texts. Spoken vs. written modes constitute one of the basic distinguishing characteristics of texts and is a natural stepping-off point for such an inquiry. Furthermore, all the issues of applied linguisticshow language affects and is used in everyday interaction, education, and various special settingswill be ...             Vox Intexta: Orality And Textuality In The Middle Ages Alger N. Doane University of Wisconsin Press, 1991 Brings together interrelated essays on aspects of oral production and reception in Western European medieval contexts from modern and post-structuralist perspectives. The contributors discusss the physical, social and semiotic qualities of medieval oralism, exploring a range of issues.             Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion (Studies in Jewish Culture and ... Yale University Press, 2000 This book examines the impact of changing modes of cultural transmission on Jewish and Western cultures over the past two thousand years. The contributors to the volume survey some of the ways -- conscious and subconscious -- in which cultural elements arc selected, shaped, and transmitted, and some of the ways they in turn shape the future of their cultures. Focusing on a range of Jewish cultures from late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the ...             Writing The Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics And Literate Culture In Medieval England (Poetics of Orality and ... Mark Amodio University of Notre Dame Press, 2005 Mark Amodio?s book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Amodio argues that the expressive economy of oral poetics survives in written texts ...             Orality, history, and "Creoleness" in Patrick Chamoiseau's Creole Folktales. (Articles).(Critical Essay): An ... Lewis C. Seifert Wayne State University Press, 2002 This digital document is an article from Marvels & Tales, published by Wayne State University Press on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7633 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Orality, history, and "Creoleness" in ...             Semeia 39: Orality, Aurality, and Biblical Narrative Society of Biblical Literature, 1987             Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Myth and Poetics) Egbert J. Bakker Cornell University Press, 1997             Reading The Medieval Book: Word, Image, And Performance In Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm (Poetics of ...1 review Kathryn Starkey University of Notre Dame Press, 2004 An ideal template for the study of other medieval poetry Also available in a hardcover edition (0268041083, $50.00), Reading The Medieval Book: Word, Image, And Performance In Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm by Kathryn Starkey (Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), examines one of the most important epic poems in 13th Century Germany and its redaction in a richly illustrated manuscript ...              search for books antiquity, architectural, architecture, buddhist, chamoiseau, creoleness, cultural, diffusion, discourse, eschenbach, exploring, folktales, narrative, narratives, northern, performance, performing, processes, reflections, southeast, spreading, technologizing, textuality, thailand, tradition, traditions, transmission, transmitting, typography, willehalm books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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