 | The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies Subjects: Oral tradition; Poetics; Orality in literature; Storytelling; Folk literature -- History and criticism; BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects; 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). Saussy Haun : Haun Saussy is University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He won the René Wellek Prize for Comparative Literature (for the second time) for his most recent book, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford, 2018). His book The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham, 2016) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. Haun Saussy is University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. |
