Orality and Literacy in Transatlantic Perspective

"orality in Literacy": Listening to Indigenous Writing

Resume One of the characteristics of Indigenous writing around the world may be the use of oral features as deliberate techniques in literary production. The author considers the work of Patricia Grace (of New Zealand), Sally Morgan (Australia) and Marie Annharte Baker (from Canada) in these terms. Une des caractéristiques des oeuvres indigènes autour du monde peut être l'usage des traits oraux...

The Unexpurgated Text of “ IQ , Orality , and Literacy ”

concepts out of one's language through interacting with other language users. In a monumental philological study, Havelock (1978) traced the historical development of The Greek concept of justice from its shadow in Homer to its substance in Plato, and what Vygotsky discerned as the movement from concrete conceptualization to abstract thinking in children is but a telescoped and transformed reca...

Introduction: The European Fairy-Tale Tradition between Orality and Literacy

In Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth Bottingheimer proposes to correct the historical narrative of the emergence of the fairy tale in Europe and to recognize "Straparola's role as an originator in the history of modern fairy tale" (Bottingheimer 2002:3). Giovanni Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is not exactly an unknown figure in folktale history.1 Hi...

E- Texts: The Orality and Literacy Issue Revisited

Orality and Literacy in the Commedia dell’Arte and the Shakespearean Clown

Although rarely considered in such terms, Renaissance theater provides particularly salient examples of interactions between oral and literate modalities. Renaissance playwrights, dramatic theorists, and antitheatricalists themselves viewed theater through the prism of orality and literacy, if using different terms. The relationship between orality and literacy was highly charged, variously cha...