Orality demands the listener’s attention and thus becomes an instrument for the community, while the printed word invites privacy. Simply put: When you read, you want to be alone.

Epics, Orality, and the Primacy of Sound with Dr. Sundaram 2016.10.25. Non-CAS Event Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Sturm 286. Oral modes of performance have permeated the Indian ...

You are warmly welcomed to a series of free, online seminars, taking place this autumn (2023), on the topic of orality and early Greek epic. These webinars will be hosted by Frances Pickworth and ...

Prof. Jonathan Ready (Michigan), ‘How I Think We Should Think about Orality and the Homeric Epics’ 'One can approach the issue of orality and Homeric epic by studying everyday language production (see ...

Web 2.0 can be defined in a number of ways, technically, by uses, by generational shifts, etc., but underlying all of the definitions is the cultural and historical fact that we are now in a period of ...

While researching this paper, I was struck by a number of parallels which can be made between certain aspects of Beat poetics, and oral culture as discussed in our readings in the History of ...

A seismic shift from literacy to digital orality may be the biggest threat to evangelical Christianity in our times. Any organization—business, ministry, school, whatever—typically asks what ...

Orality exists in an ongoing relationship with literacy in ways that are mutually constitutive and reinforcing. Finally, orality is not dying in Africa or anywhere else in the world.