The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres

The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres
ISBN-10
3161504453
ISBN-13
9783161504457
Category
Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General
Pages
438
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Mohr Siebeck
Authors
Robert B. Coote, Annette Weissenrieder

Description

How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance, and literacy and popular culture in the ancient Mediterranean world. Incorporating both customary and innovative perspectives, the essays advance the frontiers of our understanding of the nature of ancient texts as regards audibility and performance, the vital importance of the visual in the comprehension of texts, and basic concepts of communication, particularly the need to account for disjunctive and non-reciprocal social relations in communication. Thus the contributions show how the investigation of the interface of the oral and written, across the spectrum of seeing, hearing, and writing, generates new concepts of media and mediation.

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