Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
THE LITERATE MIND AND THE ORAL PAST......Page 16
DID YOU SAY ‘ORAL LITERATURE’?......Page 21
EARLY AWARENESS OF ORAL TRADITION......Page 28
THE HOMERIC QUESTION......Page 29
MILMAN PARRY’S DISCOVERY......Page 31
CONSEQUENT AND RELATED WORK......Page 38
SOUNDED WORD AS POWER AND ACTION......Page 42
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU CAN RECALL: MNEMONICS AND FORMULAS......Page 44
(i) Additive rather than subordinative......Page 47
(ii) Aggregative rather than analytic......Page 49
(iii) Redundant or ‘copious’......Page 50
(iv) Conservative or traditionalist......Page 51
(v) Close to the human lifeworld......Page 53
(vi) Agonistically toned......Page 54
(vii) Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced......Page 56
(viii) Homeostatic......Page 57
(ix) Situational rather than abstract......Page 59
ORAL MEMORIZATION......Page 67
VERBOMOTOR LIFESTYLE......Page 77
THE NOETIC ROLE OF HEROIC ‘HEAVY’ FIGURES AND OF THE BIZARRE......Page 79
THE INTERIORITY OF SOUND......Page 80
ORALITY, COMMUNITY AND THE SACRAL......Page 83
WORDS ARE NOT SIGNS......Page 84
THE NEW WORLD OF AUTONOMOUS DISCOURSE......Page 88
PLATO, WRITING AND COMPUTERS......Page 89
WRITING IS A TECHNOLOGY......Page 91
WHAT IS ‘WRITING’ OR ‘SCRIPT’?......Page 93
MANY SCRIPTS BUT ONLY ONE ALPHABET......Page 95
THE ONSET OF LITERACY......Page 102
FROM MEMORY TO WRITTEN RECORDS......Page 105
SOME DYNAMICS OF TEXTUALITY......Page 110
DISTANCE, PRECISION, GRAPHOLECTS AND MAGNAVOCABULARIES......Page 112
INTERACTIONS: RHETORIC AND THE PLACES......Page 117
INTERACTIONS: LEARNED LANGUAGES......Page 120
TENACIOUSNESS OF ORALITY......Page 123
HEARING-DOMINANCE YIELDS TO SIGHT-DOMINANCE......Page 126
SPACE AND MEANING......Page 131
(i) Indexes......Page 132
(ii) Books, contents and labels......Page 134
(iii) Meaningful surface......Page 135
(iv) Typographic space......Page 136
MORE DIFFUSE EFFECTS......Page 138
PRINT AND CLOSURE: INTERTEXTUALITY......Page 140
POST-TYPOGRAPHY: ELECTRONICS......Page 143
THE PRIMACY OF THE STORY LINE......Page 148
NARRATIVE AND ORAL CULTURES......Page 149
ORAL MEMORY AND THE STORY LINE......Page 150
CLOSURE OF PLOT: TRAVELOGUE TO DETECTIVE STORY......Page 156
THE ‘ROUND’ CHARACTER, WRITING AND PRINT......Page 159
LITERARY HISTORY......Page 164
NEW CRITICISM AND FORMALISM......Page 168
STRUCTURALISM......Page 171
TEXTUALISTS AND DECONSTRUCTIONISTS......Page 173
SPEECH-ACT AND READER-RESPONSE THEORY......Page 177
SOCIAL SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY, BIBLICAL STUDIES......Page 179
ORALITY, WRITING AND BEING HUMAN......Page 181
‘MEDIA’ VERSUS HUMAN COMMUNICATION......Page 182
THE INWARD TURN: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE TEXT......Page 184
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 188
INDEX......Page 204