The muse learns to write: reflections on orality and literacy from antiquity to the present.

Havelock, Eric A., 1903-1988

Published by New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986

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good dust-jacket has thin moisture stain along bottom edge, visible only from reverse, very good yellow cloth, no damage apparent to me. HAVELOCK, ERIC A. The muse learns to write: reflections on orality and literacy from antiquity to the present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, 1st printing number line starting with 1, 144pp., . Dust-jacket design by Sujata Guha. CONTENTS: Program of investigation -- Introducing the muse -- The modern discovery of orality -- Radio and the rediscovery of rhetoric -- Cross-cultural collisions -- Can a text speak? -- Speech put in storage -- The general theory of primary orality -- The special theory of Greek oralitiy -- The special theory of Greek literacy -- The special theories on trial. 9780300037418 ISBN 0300037414.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The muse learns to write: reflections on orality and literacy from antiquity to the present.
• Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included