Written Voices, Spoken Signs

Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text

Edited by Egbert J. Bakker

Edited by Ahuvia Kahane

    Despite its wide range of topics and approaches, the volume has a clear thematic focus. All contributors seek to leave behind the more formal concerns of past generations of scholars and aim instead at an understanding of orality as that which is (conceptually or actually) close, immediate, or performed. In their joint search for the new picture, classicists, linguists, and medievalists discover a range of different 'oralities'.
       --J. Haubold, Classical Review

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Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University.

Ahuvia Kahane is Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University.