In:Or Words to That Effect: Orality and the writing of literary history
Edited by Daniel F. Chamberlain and J. Edward Chamberlin
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXVIII] 2016
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Published online: 27 January 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxviii.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
1
Daniel F. Chamberlain
J. Edward Chamberlin
Preliminaries
3
J. Edward Chamberlin
Section I.Taking Up the Issues
Histories of Literature and the Question of Comparative Oral Literary History
33
Daniel F. Chamberlain
Levelling the Orality-Literacy Playing Field: Marcel Jousse’s Laboratory of Awareness and the Oral-Literary Continuum
47
Edgard Sienaert
Modes of Discourse, Modes of Rationality
63
David R. Olson
Performing Writing and Singing Silence in the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition
73
Andy Orchard
Performing Writing and Singing Silence in the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition
73
Andy Orchard
Section II.Listening Performances
In The Storyteller’s House
93
Dan Yashinsky
The Game of the Little Secrets or How to Learn (and to Teach) Mechanisms of Orality
107
Paloma Díaz-Mas
Significant Spaces Between: Making Room for Silence
115
Daniel Heath Justice
The Story of Story and a Canon of Story
126
Stuart McHardy
Made for You and Me: Treaties with First Nations and the Settlement of Canada
135
Michael Asch
Section III.Stories of Storytelling
“Oral” in Literary History: The Case of Southern African Literatures
149
Michael Chapman
Making Space for the Spoken Word
162
Keavy Martin
Orality in Basque Literary Historiography
172
Jon Kortazar
The Ladder Holds Up the World Above
182
Lee Haring
Oral and Written Šukar Laviben of the Roma: The Beginning of a Romani Literary Historiography
194
Beate Eder-Jordan
Maria Witting
Section IV.Communities in Comparative Encounters
Guaman Poma and His Traces: A Colonial Proposal to the Academic Debate Regarding Orality and Writing
207
Roberto Viereck Salinas
The Study of the Elements of Literary History of the Khoekhoe and ǂKhomani Languages of Southern Africa
217
Levi Namaseb
The Stream of ǂKhomani Stories
243
Neil ten Kortenaar
The Puzzle of Voice: Oral Poetry and Literary Studies
256
Frederico Augusto Garcia Fernandes
Talking Technologies: Digital Poetry Meets Orality
270
María Teresa Vilariño Picos
References
281
List of Contributors
309
Index
313
