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Phrasikleia : An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece / Jesper Svenbro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Svenbro, Jesper, author.
- Series:
- Myth and poetics.
- Myth and Poetics
- Standardized Title:
- Phrasikleia. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Greece--History.
- Literacy.
- Language and culture--Greece.
- Language and culture.
- Books and reading--Greece--History.
- Books and reading.
- Greece--Civilization.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- First published in French in 1988, this extraordinary book traces the meaning and function of reading from its very beginnings in Greek oral culture through the development of silent reading.One of the most haunting early examples of Greek alphabetical writing appears on the life-sized Archaic funerary statue of a young girl. The inscription speaks for Phrasikleia, who "shall always be called maiden," for she has received this name from the gods instead of marriage.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory
- Translations Consulted
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Phrasikleia: From Silence to Sound
- CHAPTER 2. I Write, Therefore I Efface Myself: The Speech-Act in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions
- CHAPTER 3. The Reader and the Reading Voice: The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud
- CHAPTER 4. The Child as Signifier: The "Inscription" of the Proper Name
- CHAPTER 5. The Writer's Daughter: Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors
- CHAPTER 6. Nomos, "Exegesis," Reading: The Reading Voice and the Law
- CHAPTER 7. True Metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides
- CHAPTER 8. Death by Writing: Sappho, the Poem, and the Reader
- CHAPTER 9. The Inner Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading
- CHAPTER 10. The Reader and the eromenos: The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing
- Index
- Notes:
- Translation of: Phrasikleia : anthropologie de la lecture en Grece ancienne.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-1768-5
- OCLC:
- 1080551202
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