The Muse Learns to Write

Marie Borroff

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 1967
• eBook ISBN: 9780300191639
• Edition: 1

When oral culture becomes literate, in what way does human consciousness itself change? And how does the new form of communication affect the content and meaning of texts? In this book, one of the most original and penetrating thinkers in Greek studies describes the transformation from orality to literacy in classical times and reflects upon its continued meaning for us today.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Program of Investigation
• 2. Introducing the Muse
• 3. The Modern Discovery of Orality
• 4. Radio & the Rediscovery of Rhetoric
• 5. Cross-Cultural Collisions
• 6. Can a Text Speak?
• 7. Speech Put in Storage
• 8. T¿£ General Theory of Primary Orality
• 9. The Special Theory of Greek Orality
• 10. TA¿ Special Theory of Greek Literacy
• 11. TAe Special Theories on Trial
• Bibliography
• Index