Abstract:The interface of literacy and orality, in societies where those two means for the transmission of knowledge coexist, has been of interest to medievalists. Research into acts of textualization can prov...The interface of literacy and orality, in societies where those two means for the transmission of knowledge coexist, has been of interest to medievalists. Research into acts of textualization can provide a comparative context for one understanding of similar phenomena. It leads to the preservation of oral-like texts, ones that show a significant residue of oral features. The Oral-Formulaic Character of Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry proved to be of crucial importance in discussions of orality in the Anglo-Saxon context. Criticism on the oral dimension of Old English literature has taken a variety of forms in recent decades, some of it in a direct line of intellectual descent from the work of Homerist Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord and some of it less so. Irving's The Approach to Heorot shows the pervasive workings in Beowulf of an oral noetics.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-02-24
Language: en
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