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» 9/23 Orality & Literacy Performing Text: Orality, Literacy, Performance
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Performing Text: Orality, Literacy, Performance. ENGL 781 at Queens College, Fall 2010. 9/23 Orality and Literacy. This week we’ll delve a bit more into theories of orality and literacy. How do spoken and written language relate? What effects do they have on cultures that use them? Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Introduction and Chapter One. Other related texts (for optional research):. Oral Poetry: An Introduction. The Singer of Tales. September 20, 2010 at 11:34 am. What I’...
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» 9/30 Sound as Poetry Performing Text: Orality, Literacy, Performance
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Performing Text: Orality, Literacy, Performance. ENGL 781 at Queens College, Fall 2010. 9/30 Sound as Poetry. This week, and the following two weeks, we are mostly going to listen. Having discussed orality and the “iconicity” of oral/aural performance, we will now discuss the aural impact of some icons of sound poetry. For starters, I’d like you to read Steve McCaffery’s short essay about the history of sound poetry, which can be found on ubuweb: Sound Poetry: A Survey. Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces.