Orality and Literacy : : Reflections across Disciplines / / ed. by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arbuckle, Gary,; Carlson, Keith Thor,; Chamberlin, J. Edward,; Fagan, Kristina,; Gibson, Twyla,; Gingell, Susan,; Ileto, Reynaldo C.,; Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia,; Kis, Oksana,
• HerausgeberIn: Carlson, Keith Thor,; Fagan, Kristina,; Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Map of Selected Place Names --; Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche --; Part One. Questing Truths --; 1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling --; 2. Orality about Literacy: The 'Black and White' of Salish History --; Part Two. Writing It Down --; 3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus --; 4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: Print Textualization from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions --; Part Three. Going Public --; 5. 'Private stories' in Aboriginal Literature --; 6. From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies --; Part Four. Subverting Authority --; 7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy in the Laozi --; 8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic --; Part Five. Uncovering Voices --; 9. A Tagalog Awit of the 'Holy War' against the united states, 1899-1902 --; 10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442661936; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442661936
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings the two concepts have are products of their ever-changing relationships to one another.Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function.