Orality and Literacy : Reflections Across Disciplines

Carlson, Keith Thor (EDT)/ Fagan, Kristina (EDT)/ Khanenko-Friesen, Na

Univ of Toronto Pr（2011/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780802098269
• DDC分類 306.44

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan and Natalia Shostak Boasting, Toasting and Truthtelling J. Edward Chamberlin Orality About Literacy: The 'Black and White' of Salish History Keith Thor Carlson The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus Twyla Gibson The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Kanien'kahake/Mohawk Oral Traditions Susan Gingell From Family Lore to a People's History: The Role of Oral Culture in Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Private Stories in Aboriginal Literature Kristina Fagan For Their Own Good: Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy in the Laozi / Gary Arbuckle Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic Frank Klaassen A Tagalog Awit of the 'Holy War' against the United States, 1899-1902 Reynaldo Illeto Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies Oksana Kis