Ethnography of Rhythm - Orality and Its Technologies

Informationen zum Autor Haun Saussy is University Professor at the University of Chicago. He holds an MPhil and a PhD from Yale University and a BA from Duke University. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic, Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China, The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and its Technologies, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out, and as editor or coeditor, Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization, Sinographies: Writing China, Fenollosa/Pound, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition, Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader, and A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep Hidden: Selected Writings of Li Zhi. Klappentext A history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema). Zusammenfassung A history of the concept of orality (that is! the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing)! this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism! post-symbolism! structuralism; physiology! psychology! the study of expression! anthropology; phonography! cinema).

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• Authors: Haun Saussy, Haun/ Solovieva Saussy, University Professor Haun (The University Saussy
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780823270460
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7046-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Verbal Arts; Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics; Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics; Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)