The invention of the oral

Autor*innen

• Paula McDowell

Parameter

• 368 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Weltliteratur

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Oral tradition in the history of mediation -- Oral tradition as a tale of a tub: Jonathan Swift's oratorial machines -- The contagion of the oral in a Journal of the plague year -- Oratory transactions: John "Orator" Henley and his critics -- How to speak well in public: the elocution movement begins in earnest -- "Fair rhetoric" and the fishwives of Billingsgate -- "The art of printing was fatal": the idea of oral tradition in ballad discourse -- Conjecturing oral societies: global to Gaelic -- Coda: when did "orality" become a "culture"?

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Einband: Hardcover