Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world / edited by Elizabeth Minchin.

Author/creator International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
Other author Minchin, Elizabeth.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionxviii, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

SeriesMnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; 335
Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 9
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 335. ^A492133
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. ^A1054561
Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 9. ^A1286561
Contents Pt. 1. Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer -- Works and days as performance / Ruth Scodel -- Pt. 2. Literacy and orality -- Empowering the sacred: the function of the Sanskrit text in a contemporary exposition of the Bhagavatapurana/ McComas Taylor -- Prompts for participation in early philosophical texts/ James Henderson Collins II -- Performing an academic talk: Proclus on Hesiod's works and days / Patrizia Marzillo -- The criticism-and the practice-of literacy in the ancient philosophical tradition / Mathilde Cambron-Goulet -- Reading books, talking culture: the performance of Paideia in imperial greek literature / Jeroen Lauwers -- Eumolpus poeta at work: rehearsed spontaneity in the Satyricon / Niall Slater.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011036943
ISBN9789004217744 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9004217746 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9789004217751
ISBN9004217754

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Electronic Resources Access Content Online ✔ Available