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 Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, |
| Description | xviii, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Mnemosyne 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011036943 |
| ISBN | 9789004217744 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004217746 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9789004217751 |
| ISBN | 9004217754 |
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