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Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in
elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this
volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and
manuscript or print on the other hand, could have interdependent or
complementary roles to play in the creation and circulation of
texts. The first part of the book centres on performances, ranging
from realizations of written texts to improvisations or
semi-improvisations that might draw on written sources and might
later be committed to paper. Case studies examine the poems sung in
the piazza that narrated contemporary warfare, commedia dell'arte
scenarios, and the performative representation of the diverse
spoken languages of Italy. The second group of essays studies the
influence of speech on the written word and reveals that, as
fourteenth-century Tuscan became accepted as a literary standard,
contemporary non-standard spoken languages were seen to possess an
immediacy that made them an effective resource within certain kinds
of written communication. The third part considers the roles of
orality in the worlds of the learned and of learning. The book as a
whole demonstrates that the borderline between orality and writing
was highly permeable and that the culture of the period, with its
continued reliance on orality alongside writing, was often hybrid
in nature.
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