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| General Editor's Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Orality of Language: The literate mind and the oral past | |
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| Did you say 'oral literature'? | |
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| The modern discovery of primary oral cultures: Early awareness of oral tradition | |
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| The Homeric question | |
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| Milman Parry's discovery | |
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| Consequent and related work | |
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| Some psychodynamics of orality: Sounded word as power and action | |
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| You know what you can recall: mneumonics and formulas | |
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| Further characteristics of orally based thought and expression | |
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| Addictive rather than subordinative | |
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| Aggregative rather than analytic | |
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| Redundant or 'copious' | |
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| Conservative or traditionalist | |
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| Close to the human lifeworld | |
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| Agonistically toned | |
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| Empathetic and participatory rather then objectively distanced | |
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| Homeostatic | |
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| Situational rather than abstract | |
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| Oral memorization | |
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| Verbomotor lifestyle | |
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| The noetic role of heroic 'heavy' figures and of the bizarre | |
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| The interiority of sound | |
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| Orality, community and the sacral | |
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| Words are not signs | |
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| Writing restructures consciousness: The new world of autonomous discourse | |
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| Plato, writing and computers | |
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| Writing is a technology | |
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| What is 'writing' or 'script'? | |
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| Many scripts but only one alphabet | |
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| The onset of literacy | |
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| From memory to written records | |
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| Some dynamics of textuality | |
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| Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies | |
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| Interactions: rhetorics and the places | |
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| Interactions: learned languages | |
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| Tenaciousness of orlaity | |
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| Print, space and closure: Hearing-dominance yeilds o sight-dominance | |
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| Space and meaning | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Books, contents and labels | |
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| Meaningful surface | |
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| Typographic space | |
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| More diffuse effects | |
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| Print and closure: intertexuality | |
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| Post-typography: electronics | |
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| Oral memory, the story line and characterisation: The primacy of the story line | |
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| Narrative and oral cultures | |
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| Oral memory and the story line | |
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| Closure of plot: travelogue to detective story | |
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| The 'round' character, writing and print | |
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| Some theorems: Literary history | |
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| New Criticism and Formalism | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Textualists and deconstructionists | |
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| Speech-act and reader-response theory | |
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| Social Sciences, philosophy, biblical studies | |
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| Orality, wriitng and being human | |
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| 'Media' versus human communication | |
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| The inward turn: consciousness and the text | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |