The ethnography of rhythm : orality and its technologies /

"Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"--Core ideas of modern literary theory-were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saussy, Haun, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Weighing Hearsay
  • 1. Poetry Without Poems or Poets
  • 2. Writing as (One Form of) Notation
  • 3. Autography
  • 4. The Human Gramophone
  • 5. Embodiment and Inscription.