Der Übergang von der Mündlichkeit zur Literatur bei den Griechen. - KULLMANN, W. und M. REICHEL (eds.),

KORTE INHOUD

'This volume publishes the papers from a Freiburg colloquium of 1989, and is one of an important new series of monographs and symposia on modern and ancient literacy and orality. The volume has an impressive range, and is divided up into sections on Homer, archaic poetry and a smaller group of late 5th- to 4th- century prose works (medicine, rhetoric, philosophy). Is overall aim is to examine the development and growth of Greek 'Schriftkultur', in particular texts which can be seen as in some sense transitional, bridging orality and literacy. (....) Particulary rewarding are those (contributions) which look at the role of writing and orality with sympathy for the wider cultural context of a text and its transmission , and which therefore get away from an over-simple dichotomy between written and oral. Latacz, for instance, surveys the changing function of the symposium in the development of archaic Greek literature. M.L. West's important paper tackles issues which are often evaded in the study of oral poetry,...
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1990Uitgever: Gunter Narr346 paginasTaal: DuitsISBN-10: 3823342479ISBN-13: 9783823342472

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