The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies

(Part of the Verbal Arts Series)

by Haun Saussy

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Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

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 interpretation. When it began to be...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823270475

ISBN13:9780823270477

Release Date:March 2016

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:274 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Engineering Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences Technology

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