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Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521337941
Essays on the complex relationship between oral and literate modes of communication.
Author : Dirk Naguschewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9042019379
Author : Flora Veit-Wild,Alain Ricard
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042019379
In the African context, there exists the 'myth' that orality means tradition. Written and oral verbal art are often regarded as dichotomies, one excluding the other. While orature is confused with 'tradition', literature is ascribed to modernity. Furthermore, local languages are ignored and literature is equated with writing in foreign languages. The contributions in this volume take issue with such preconceptions and explore the multiple ways in which literary and oral forms interrelate and subvert each other, giving birth to new forms of artistic expression. They emphasize the local agency of the African poet and writer, which resists the global commodification of literature through the international bestseller lists of the cultural industry. The first section traces the movement from oral to written texts, which in many cases coincides with a switch from African to European languages. But as the essays in the section on "New Literary Languages" make clear, in other cases a true philological work is accomplished in the African language to create a new written and literary medium. Through the mixing of languages in the cities, such as the Sheng spoken in Kenya or the bilinguality of a writer such as Cheik Aliou Ndao (Senegal), new idioms for literary expressions evolve. The use of new media, technology or music stimulate the emergence of new genres, such as Taarab in East Africa, radio poetry in Yoruba and Hausa, or Rap in the Senegal, as is shown in the section on "Forms of New Orality." It is a great achievement of this second volume of Versions and Subversions in African Literatures that it assembles contributions by scholars from the anglophone and the francophone world and that it covers literary production in a broad spectrum of languages: English, French, Hausa, Sheng, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Wolof and Yoruba. Some of the authors and cultural practitioners treated in detail are: Mobolaij Adenubi, Birago Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop, David Maillu, Thomas Mofolo, Cheik Aliou Ndao, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Hubert Ogunde, Shaaban Robert, Wole Soyinka, Ibrahim YaroYahaya, and Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1153672089
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1407717159
Author : Susan Gingell,Wendy Roy
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554583935
Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, while the scholarship of many of the academic contributors is informed by their participation in oral storytelling, whether as poets, singers, or visual artists. Its contributions address the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualizing orature and orality, simulations of the oral, the poetics of performance, and reconstructions of the oral.
Author : Annette Weissenrieder,Robert B. Coote
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498237420
How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance, and literacy and popular culture in the ancient Mediterranean world. Incorporating both customary and innovative perspectives, the essays advance the frontiers of our understanding of the nature of ancient texts as regards audibility and performance, the vital importance of the visual in the comprehension of texts, and basic concepts of communication, particularly the need to account for disjunctive and non-reciprocal social relations in communication. Thus the contributions show how the investigation of the interface of the oral and written, across the spectrum of seeing, hearing, and writing, generates new concepts of media and mediation.
Author : Luca Degl’Innocenti,Brian Richardson,Chiara Sbordoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317114758
Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and manuscript or print on the other hand, could have interdependent or complementary roles to play in the creation and circulation of texts. The first part of the book centres on performances, ranging from realizations of written texts to improvisations or semi-improvisations that might draw on written sources and might later be committed to paper. Case studies examine the poems sung in the piazza that narrated contemporary warfare, commedia dell'arte scenarios, and the performative representation of the diverse spoken languages of Italy. The second group of essays studies the influence of speech on the written word and reveals that, as fourteenth-century Tuscan became accepted as a literary standard, contemporary non-standard spoken languages were seen to possess an immediacy that made them an effective resource within certain kinds of written communication. The third part considers the roles of orality in the worlds of the learned and of learning. The book as a whole demonstrates that the borderline between orality and writing was highly permeable and that the culture of the period, with its continued reliance on orality alongside writing, was often hybrid in nature.
Author : Lihua Zheng
Publisher : Iggybook
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782304047493
When two people from different cultures meet, they both act in accordance with what is self-evident, that is to say natural, to them, The only problem is that the what is self-evident to some may not coincide with what is self-evident to others. Also, as people have a tendency to consider their way as going without saying or as universal, when others do not act in the same way as they do and there is conflict, they get easily annoyed. As a French businessman in China once cried out « The Chinese ask me if I eat snake. I say to them: ‘I do not eat snake, but swallow insults every day’ ». In fact, in intercultural contacts, when people seem strange to others, often, it is perhaps not that they are strange, but because others judge their behaviour with their own cultural criteria. Every culture has its own behavioural logic. However, the logic of some does not correspond to that of others. Individuals often have the same objectives, but to reach them, they take different cultural paths.
Author : Daniela Merolla,Jan Jansen,Kamal Naït-Zerrad
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783643901309
This book approaches a central concern of oral literature studies worldwide, with a special focus on Africa: how to deal with oral genres in a world where new technologies have become available to more and more people? As the book asserts, what is new is that the spotlight is directed towards (old and new) "interlocutors" who cooperate in the making of technologized oral genres in an increasingly technologized world. Their interactions affect the performance, as well as research - their roles and positions raise methodological and ethical questions particularly when local/national identities and commercial interests are at stake. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 45)
Author : Robert D. Miller II, OFS
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725246416
Providing a comprehensive study of "oral tradition" in Israel, this volume unpacks the nature of oral tradition, the form it would have taken in ancient Israel, and the remains of it in the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible. The author presents cases of oral/written interaction that provide the best ethnographic analogies for ancient Israel and insights from these suggest a model of transmission in oral-written societies valid for ancient Israel. Miller reconstructs what ancient Israelite oral literature would have been and considers criteria for identifying orally derived material in the narrative books of the Old Testament, marking several passages as highly probable oral derivations. Using ethnographic data and ancient Near Eastern examples, he proposes performance settings for this material. The epilogue treats the contentious topic of historicity and shows that orally derived texts are not more historically reliable than other texts in the Bible.
Author : International Association for the History of Religions. Congress
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 3825866696
Author : Australian Society of Archivists. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015036362419
Author : Richard Cavell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0802086586
Demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through print culture.
Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400884513
The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores for the first time the elaborate philosophical and ritual uses of the Heart Sutra in India, Tibet, and the West. Included here are full translations of the eight extant Indian commentaries. Interspersed with the translations are six essays that examine the unusual roles the Heart Sutra has played: it has been used as a mantra, an exorcism text, a tantric meditation guide, and as the material for comparative philosophy. Taken together, the translations and essays that form Elaborations on Emptiness demonstrate why commentary is as central to modern scholarship on Buddhism as it was for ancient Buddhists. Lopez reveals unexpected points of instability and contradiction in the Heart Sutra, which, in the end, turns out to be the most malleable of texts, where the logic of commentary serves as a tool of both tradition and transgression.
