Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world : orality and literacy in the ancient world, volume 9 /

The ninth meeting in the international Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World series - in the fiftieth year since the publication in 1960 of Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales - took as its theme 'Composition and Performance'. This volume contains a selection of those papers, severa...

Full description

Saved in:

Corporate Author: International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World Canberra, A.C.T.)

Other Authors: Minchin, Elizabeth.

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 335.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Online Access: Login to view Source

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: P92.G75 I535 2012

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Elizabeth Minchin
  • Poetry in Performance The Audience Expects: /
  • Adrian Kelly
  • The Presentation of Song in Homer's Odyssey /
  • Deborah Beck
  • Comparative Perspectives on the Composition of the Homeric Simile /
  • Jonathan Ready
  • Composing Lines, Performing Acts: /
  • Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer
  • Works and Days As Performance /
  • Ruth Scodel
  • Literacy and Orality Empowering the Sacred: /
  • McComas Taylor
  • Prompts for Participation in Early Philosophical Texts /
  • James Henderson Collins II
  • Performing an Academic Talk: /
  • Patrizia Marzillo
  • The Criticism-and the Practice-of Literacy in the Ancient Philosophical Tradition /
  • Mathilde Cambron-Goulet
  • Reading Books, Talking Culture: /
  • Jeroen Lauwers
  • Eumolpus Poeta at Work: /
  • Niall W. Slater
  • Index /
  • Elizabeth Minchin.