Or Words to That Effect ：Orality and the writing of literary history ( Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages )

Publication subTitle ：Orality and the writing of literary history

Publication series ： Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages

Author： Daniel F. Chamberlain   J. Edward Chamberlin  

Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9789027267801

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027234643

Subject： I109 history, literature ideology history

Keyword： Writing and literacyTheoretical literature & literary studies

Language： ENG

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Description

This volume raises questions about why oral celebrations of language receive so little attention in published literary histories when they are simultaneously recognized as fundamental to our understanding of literature. It aims to prompt debate regarding the transformations needed for literary historians to provide a more balanced and fuller appreciation of what we call literature, one that acknowledges the interdependence of oral storytelling and written expression, whether in print, pictorial, or digital form. Rather than offering a summary of current theories or prescribing solutions, this volume brings together distinguished scholars, conventional literary historians, and oral performer-practitioners from regions as diverse as South Africa, the Canadian Arctic, the Roma communities of Eastern Europe and the music industry of the American West in a conversation that engages the reader directly with the problems that they have encountered and the questions that they have explored in their work with orality and with literary history.

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OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT

Editorial page

Title page

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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

… an agreement concerning what the object under discussion actually is

… 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 ǂKhomani Languages of Southern Africa

Khoekhoe and ǂKhomani Storytellers

The Stream of ǂKhomani 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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