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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| 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.