| Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture Contributor(s): Caesar, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904350739 ISBN-13: 9781904350736 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance--theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play--make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and pre-meditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing orality has a technical side--how do young writers 'represent' the spoken language of their contemporaries? What are the rules governing the transcription of oral evidence in fiction and non-fiction?--but also a political and philosophical one: is the relationship between oral and written always a hierarchical one? Does the textualization of the oral destroy, more than it commemorates or preserves, the oral itself? Twelve wide-ranging essays explore these questions in the most up-to-date account of orality and literacy in modern Italian culture yet produced. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy - Literary Criticism - Language Arts & Disciplines | Speech & Pronunciation |
| Dewey: 302.224 |
| LCCN: 2007272759 |
| Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 7.1" W x 9.8" (1.21 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book lays more emphasis on orality as source, as process or performance, as outcome. It looks at the primacy of the spoken language that seems to be the main common feature to these two phenomena of Italian theatrical culture. |