TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saussy,Haun
TI  - The ethnography of rhythm: orality and its technologies 
T2  - Verbal arts: studies in poetics
SN  - 9780823270514
AV  - GR72 .E846 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Folk literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Orality in literature
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Figures; Introduction: Weighing Hearsay; 1 Poetry Without Poems or Poets; 2 Writing as (One Form of) Notation; 3 Autography; 4 The Human Gramophone; 5 Embodiment and Inscription; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; 2; b
N2  - "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)"--; "Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"--Core ideas of modern literary theory-were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts-starting with Homer and the Bible-had emerged from an oral tradition, assumptions on how to read these texts were greatly perturbed. Through readings that range from ancient Greece, Rome, and China to the Cold War imaginary, The Ethnography of Rhythm situates the study of oral traditions in the contentious space of nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about language, mind, and culture. It also demonstrates the role of technologies in framing this category of poetic creation. By making possible a new understanding of Maussian "techniques of the body" as belonging to the domain of Derridean "arche-writing," Haun Saussy shows how oral tradition is a means of inscription in its own right, rather than an antecedent made obsolete by the written word or other media and data-storage devices"--
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