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The Oral Style (RLE Folklore) (Routledge Library Editions: Folklore) - Hardcover

Book 13 of 16: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore

Jousse, Marcel

 
9781138843608: The Oral Style (RLE Folklore) (Routledge Library Editions: Folklore)

Synopsis

In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse’s crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, this study fired the imagination of contemporary intellectuals in Paris soon after its publication and influenced the work of many. In this book, Jousse provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral, as opposed to literate, authors, showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological and even physiological nature of mankind.

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Marcel Jousse

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