Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world

Körperschaft: International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World Canberra, Australia)
Weitere Verfasser: Minchin, Elizabeth
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Umfang/Format: xviii, 268 p.
Schriftenreihe: Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature 335
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.