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Orality and Literacy
[First published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532-538. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{532|533}” indicates where p. 532 of the printed version ends and p. 533 begins.] The concept of orality stems from ethnographic descriptions of oral poetry in particular and of oral traditions in general. A foundational work is The… Read more
Gregory Nagy, Homer’s Text and Language
Published in 2004 by the University of Illinois Press. Copyright, University of Illinois Press. Also available for purchase in print here. Read more