ISBN:
9780203103258
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
Ausgabe:
30th anniversary edition
Serie:
New accents
Serie:
New Accents Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Orality and Literacy : The Technologizing of the Word
DDC:
306.44
Schlagwort(e):
Oral tradition
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Mündliche Überlieferung
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Literatur
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Schriftlichkeit
Kurzfassung:
Front Cover -- Orality and Literacy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Before Ongism John Hartley -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The orality of language -- The literate mind and the oral past -- Did you say 'oral literature'? -- 2 The modern discovery of primary oral cultures -- Early awareness of oral tradition -- The Homeric question -- Milman Parry's discovery -- Consequent and related work -- 3 Some psychodynamics of orality -- Sounded word as power and action -- You know what you can recall: mnemonics and formulas -- Further characteristics of orally based thought and expression -- (i) Additive rather than subordinative -- (ii) Aggregative rather than analytic -- (iii) Redundant or 'copious' -- (iv) Conservative or traditionalist -- (v) Close to the human lifeworld -- (vi) Agonistically toned -- (vii) Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced -- (viii) Homeostatic -- (ix) Situational rather than abstract -- Oral memorization -- Verbomotor lifestyle -- The noetic role of heroic 'heavy' figures and of the bizarre -- The interiority of sound -- Orality, community and the sacral -- Words are not signs -- 4 Writing restructures consciousness -- The new world of autonomous discourse -- Plato, writing and computers -- Writing is a technology -- What is 'writing' or 'script'? -- Many scripts but only one alphabet -- The onset of literacy -- From memory to written records -- Some dynamics of textuality -- Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies -- Interactions: rhetoric and the places -- Interactions: learned languages -- Tenaciousness of orality -- 5 Print, space and closure -- Hearing-dominance yields to sight-dominance -- Space and meaning -- (i) Indexes -- (ii) Books, contents and labels -- (iii) Meaningful surface -- (iv) Typographic space -- More diffuse effects.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Front Cover""; ""Orality and Literacy""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""General Editor�s Preface""; ""Before Ongism John Hartley""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The orality of language""; ""The literate mind and the oral past""; ""Did you say �oral literature�?""; ""2 The modern discovery of primary oral cultures""; ""Early awareness of oral tradition""; ""The Homeric question""; ""Milman Parry�s discovery""; ""Consequent and related work""; ""3 Some psychodynamics of orality""; ""Sounded word as power and action""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""You know what you can recall: mnemonics and formulas""""Further characteristics of orally based thought and expression""; ""(i) Additive rather than subordinative""; ""(ii) Aggregative rather than analytic""; ""(iii) Redundant or �copious�""; ""(iv) Conservative or traditionalist""; ""(v) Close to the human lifeworld""; ""(vi) Agonistically toned""; ""(vii) Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced""; ""(viii) Homeostatic""; ""(ix) Situational rather than abstract""; ""Oral memorization""; ""Verbomotor lifestyle""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""The noetic role of heroic �heavy� figures and of the bizarre""""The interiority of sound""; ""Orality, community and the sacral""; ""Words are not signs""; ""4 Writing restructures consciousness""; ""The new world of autonomous discourse""; ""Plato, writing and computers""; ""Writing is a technology""; ""What is �writing� or �script�?""; ""Many scripts but only one alphabet""; ""The onset of literacy""; ""From memory to written records""; ""Some dynamics of textuality""; ""Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies""; ""Interactions: rhetoric and the places""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Interactions: learned languages""""Tenaciousness of orality""; ""5 Print, space and closure""; ""Hearing-dominance yields to sight-dominance""; ""Space and meaning""; ""(i) Indexes""; ""(ii) Books, contents and labels""; ""(iii) Meaningful surface""; ""(iv) Typographic space""; ""More diffuse effects""; ""Print and closure: intertextuality""; ""Post-typography: electronics""; ""6 Oral memory, the story line and characterization""; ""The primacy of the story line""; ""Narrative and oral cultures""; ""Oral memory and the story line""; ""Closure of plot: travelogue to detective story""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""The �round� character, writing and print""""7 Some theorems""; ""Literary history""; ""New Criticism and Formalism""; ""Structuralism""; ""Textualists and deconstructionists""; ""Speech-act and reader-response theory""; ""Social sciences, philosophy, biblical studies""; ""Orality, writing and being human""; ""�Media� versus human communication""; ""The inward turn: consciousness and the text""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""After Ongism John Hartley""; ""References for Hartley Chapters""; ""Index for Hartley Chapters""
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