| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume). |
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text file |
| Series |
Verbal arts: studies in poetics
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Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"A history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema)"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"--Core ideas of modern literary theory-were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts-starting with Homer and the Bible-had emerged from an oral tradition, assumptions on how to read these texts were greatly perturbed. Through readings that range from ancient Greece, Rome, and China to the Cold War imaginary, The Ethnography of Rhythm situates the study of oral traditions in the contentious space of nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about language, mind, and culture. It also demonstrates the role of technologies in framing this category of poetic creation. By making possible a new understanding of Maussian "techniques of the body" as belonging to the domain of Derridean "arche-writing," Haun Saussy shows how oral tradition is a means of inscription in its own right, rather than an antecedent made obsolete by the written word or other media and data-storage devices"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Figures; Introduction: Weighing Hearsay; 1 Poetry Without Poems or Poets; 2 Writing as (One Form of) Notation; 3 Autography; 4 The Human Gramophone; 5 Embodiment and Inscription; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folk literature -- History and criticism.
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Folk literature. |
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Storytelling.
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Storytelling. |
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Orality in literature.
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Orality in literature. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
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Oral tradition.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Oral tradition. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
| Indexed Term |
Derrida. |
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Homer. |
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Jacques. |
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MacLuhan. |
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Marshall. |
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Milman. |
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Parry. |
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embodiment. |
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literacy. |
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media. |
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memory. |
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oral tradition. |
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theory of literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saussy, Haun, 1960- Ethnography of rhythm. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2015036361 |
| ISBN |
9780823270514 (electronic book) |
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0823270513 (electronic book) |
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9780823270491 |
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0823270491 |
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9780823270507 |
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0823270505 |
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0823270513 |
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9780823270460 (hardback) |
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9780823270477 (paper) |
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0823270467 |
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0823270475 |
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