Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England (Poetics of Orality & Literacy) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England (Poetics of Orality & Literacy) Book

Mark Amodio?s book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Amodio argues that the expressive economy of oral poetics survives in written texts because, throughout the Middle Ages, literacy and orality were interdependent, not competing, cultural forces.Read More

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  • 0268020248
  • 9780268020248
  • Mark C. Amodio
  • 30 November 2004
  • University of Notre Dame Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 298
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