Orality and Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802098266 ISBN 13 : 9780802098269

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2011

Synopsis

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings the two concepts have are products of their ever-changing relationships to one another.Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Keith Thor Carlson is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. Kristina Fagan is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is an associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Religions and Culture at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802098266
• ISBN 13: 9780802098269
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Carlson Keith Thor, Fagan Kristina, Khanenko-Friesen Natalia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible