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Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature (Paperback)
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Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature (Paperback)
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Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek
literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing.
In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics -
text, orality, myth, literacy, tradition and memorization - and
then shows how such special topics relate to larger issues of
cultural transmission from East to West. Several chapters are
devoted to the theory and history of writing, its definition and
general nature as well as such individual developments as
semasiography and logosyllabography, Chinese writing and the West
Semitic family of syllabaries. He shows how the Greek alphabet put
an end to the multiliteralism of Eastern traditions of writing, and
how the recording of Homer and other early epic poetry cannot be
separated from the alphabetic revolution. Finally, he explains how
the creation of Greek alphabetic texts demoticized Greek myth and
encouraged many free creations of new myths based on Eastern
images.
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