The muse learns to write : reflections on orality and literacy from antiquity to the present

The muse learns to write : reflections on orality and literacy from antiquity to the present /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Havelock, Eric Alfred
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1986.
Subjects:	Oral communication > History. Written communication > History. Communication > Greece > History. Folk literature > History and criticism. REFERENCE > Questions & Answers. Folk literature Communication Oral communication Written communication Grieks. Letterkunde. Ontstaansgeschiedenis. Verbale communicatie. Schriftelijke communicatie. Communication orale > Histoire. Communication écrite > Histoire. Communication orale > Grèce. Greece Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Program of investigation
Introducing the muse
The modern discovery of orality
Radio and the rediscovery of rhetoric
Cross-cultural collisions
Can a text speak?
Speech put in storage
The general theory of primary orality
The special theory of Greek oralitiy
The special theory of Greek literacy
The special theories on trial.