Between orality and literacy : communication and adaptation in antiquity /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Meeting name:	International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World (10th : 2012 : Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 387 pages .)
Language:	English
Series:	Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 367 Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; vol. 10 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 367. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 10.
Subject:	Oral communication -- Greece -- Congresses. Oral communication -- Rome -- Congresses. Written communication -- Greece -- Congresses. Written communication -- Rome -- Congresses. Transmission of texts -- Greece -- Congresses. Transmission of texts -- Rome -- Congresses. Oral tradition in literature -- Congresses. Oral-formulaic analysis -- Congresses. Oral communication. Oral-formulaic analysis. Oral tradition in literature. Transmission of texts. Written communication. Greece. Rome (Empire) Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275752

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Scodel, Ruth, editor.
ISBN:	9004270973 9789004270978 9789004269125 9004269126
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide expanses of time and space or adapted in new contexts. Their topics range from Homer and Hesiod to the New Testament and Gaius' Institutes, from epic poetry and drama to vase painting, historiography, mythography, and the philosophical letter. Repeatedly they return to certain issues. Writing and orality are not mutually exclusive, and their interaction is not always in a single direction. Authors, whether they use writing or not, try to control the responses of a listening audience. A variable tradition can be fixed, not just by writing as a technology, but by such different processes as the establishment of a Panhellenic version of an Attic myth and a Hellenistic city's creation of a single celebratory history.
Other form:	Print version: 9789004269125 9004269126
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004270978.

Similar Items