Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world : orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 / / edited by Elizabeth Minchin.

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Superior document:Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, v. 335
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 335.
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Physical Description:xviii, 268 p.
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Table of 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.