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Conference International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World (9th : 2010 : Canberra, A.C.T.)

Title Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world [electronic resource] : orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 / edited by Elizabeth Minchin.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description xviii, 268 p.
Series Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; v. 335
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 335.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Oral communication -- Greece -- Congresses.
Written communication -- Greece -- Congresses.
Transmission of texts -- Greece -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Minchin, Elizabeth.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004217744 (hardcover alk. paper)
9789004217751 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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