Or words to that effect : orality and the writing of literary history / edited by Daniel F. Chamberlain, Queen's University ; J. Edward Chamberlin, University of Toronto.

Or words to that effect : orality and the writing of literary history /

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Other Authors: Chamberlain, Daniel Frank, 1951- (Editor), Chamberlin, J. Edward, 1943- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Series:Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 28.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History.
Storytelling > History.
Europe > Languages > History.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Preliminaries
  • Histories of Literature and the Question of Comparative Oral Literary History
  • Levelling the Orality-Literacy Playing Field
  • I Introduction
  • Towards a Hyphenated I: an Oralate-Literate Experience
  • II Marcel Jousse's Laboratory of Awareness
  • The Law of Im-pression: Mimism
  • The Laws of Ex-pression
  • Oral Style and Jousse's Oral-style Theory
  • III Leveling the Oral-literate Playing Field Through Awareness of the Oral-literate Continuum
  • {u2026} an agreement concerning what the object under discussion actually is
  • {u2026} a common language in which to build questions and answers
  • Oral Tradition and Oral-Style Tradition
  • Oral-style Texts
  • Didactics and Aesthetics in Mnemonic Society
  • Oral-Style Mnemotechnical Terminology: Towards a Mnemo-Stylistics
  • Presenting Oral-style Texts on the Page: Rhythmography
  • IV Conclusion
  • Modes of Discourse, Modes of Rationality
  • Discourse and Rationality
  • The Place of Narrative
  • What Is a Story?
  • Rationality and Modes of Discourse
  • A Discourse Model of Reasoning
  • Conclusion
  • Performing Writing and Singing Silence in the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition
  • In The Storyteller's House
  • The Game of the Little Secrets or How to Learn (and to Teach) Mechanisms of Orality
  • Learning the Mechanisms of Orality
  • Literary Canon and Orality
  • An Example of the Relationship between Writing and Orality: Lope de Vega and the Oral Tradition of the Moroccan Sephardim
  • Second Example: Literary Texts and the Terrorist Attacks of March 11, 2004 in Madrid
  • Conclusion
  • Significant Spaces Between
  • A Lesson in Silence, #1
  • Coming to Voice
  • A Lesson in Silence, #2
  • Silent Connections
  • A Lesson in Silence, #3
  • Silence and Experiential Knowledge.
  • A Lesson in Silence, #4
  • The Story of Story and a Canon of Story
  • A Canon of Oralcy?
  • Made for You and Me
  • The Empty Land
  • Treaties: an Overview
  • American Treaty Policy
  • British Treaty Policy in Canada
  • Comparing Canada and the United States
  • First Nations and Treaties in Canada
  • This Land is Your Land: Reprise
  • Oh Canada
  • "Oral" in Literary History
  • Making Space for the Spoken Word
  • Literary History on the Branch
  • Literary History on the River
  • The Past as a Familiar Country
  • Orality in Basque Literary Historiography
  • Oral Literature and Written Literature
  • Oral Literature Collections
  • Studies of Oral Literature
  • The Institutionalisation of Teaching Basque Literature
  • Orality in Basque Literary Histories
  • The Ladder Holds Up the World Above
  • Oral and Written Šukar Laviben of the Roma
  • Hübschmannová's Essay "My Encounters with Romano šukar laviben"
  • Tera Fabiánová's Poem Av manca čhajori
  • Ilona Lacková
  • Ceija Stojka
  • A Concluding Note Regarding Orality and the Socio-political Situation of Roma
  • Guaman Poma and His Traces
  • Introduction
  • Writing without Words
  • If Drawings Spoke
  • The Study of the Elements of Literary History of the Khoekhoe and {u01C2}Khomani Languages of Southern Africa
  • Khoekhoe and {u01C2}Khomani Storytellers
  • The Stream of {u01C2}Khomani Stories
  • The Puzzle of Voice
  • Introduction
  • Entering the Domain of Oral Poetry
  • Oral Poetry and Literary Studies from a Comparative Perspective
  • Talking Technologies
  • Poetry, Orality, and the New Media
  • Orality and the Memory-Machine: Real time, Performance, Mutability, and Spatiality
  • Orality, Interaction, Group Work, Sociability, and Literary History
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.

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