Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world
By: edited by Elizabeth Minchin
Contributors: Minchin, Elizabeth
Series: Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature -- 335
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789004217744
Subjects: Congresses; Written communication; Oral communication; Transmission of texts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Poetry in performance; title: The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly; title: The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck; title: Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready; title: Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer; title: Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel; title: Pt. 2. Literacy and orality; title: Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor; title: Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II; title: Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo; title: The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet; title: Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers; title: Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.