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This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication
in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots
in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its
influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the
archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a
reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry,
following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes
of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive
science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the
research explores the complexity of the literary message of the
Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral
communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects,
i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the
epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the
vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to
reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which
influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with
expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in
the history of the genre.
The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in
the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about
orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a
predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and
a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the
texts transmitted to us. In particular, the focus is on the
'cultural message', a set of information which is processed and
transmitted vertically as well as horizontally by a living being,
so to be differently from a genetically encoded information, a
culturally defined process. The survey intertwines different
approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology, ethology, to
analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages, and the
tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the
development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge,
their codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics
between orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the
mechanisms of cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system
cast a light on a shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication
system that has long influenced European culture.
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Case Studies (Hardcover)
Giulio Colesanti, Laura Lulli; Contributions by Roberto Nicolai
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The book is the second volume of a series of studies dealing with
the Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture (s. vol. 1: G.
Colesanti, M. Giordano, eds., Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek
Culture. An Introduction, Berlin-Boston, de Gruyter, 2014). It is a
peculiar starting point of the research in the field of Greek
culture, since it casts a light on many case studies so far not yet
analyzed as literary products subjected to the process of
submersion: e.g. oracles, philosophy, phlyax play, epigrams,
Aesopic fables, periplus, sacred texts, mysteries, medical
treatises, dance, music. Therefore the book investigates the
complex and manifold dynamics of 'emergence' and 'submersion' in
ancient Greek literary culture, dealing especially with matters as
the interaction between orality and literacy, the authorship, the
cultural transmission, the folklore. Moreover, the book offers the
reader new stimulating approaches in order to reconstruct the wide
frame which contained the overall cultural processes, including the
literary products subjected to the submersion, in a chronological
span going from Greek archaic age to the Imperial age.
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