Rethinking Orality III : From Homer to Neuroscience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettini, Maurizio.

Series:

Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media Series

Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media Series ; v.9

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rethinking Orality III

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting themes from different sources, methodologies or fields of studies. Its main results derive from the "Arts, Languages, and Media: Translation and Transcodification" project but it is also open to monographs and edited volumes arisen from different contexts and projects.

Contents:

Contents

Maurizio Bettini, Manuela Giordano, Riccardo Palmisciano

Foreword

Manuela Giordano

Introductory Remarks: "from Homer to Neuroscience"

1 From Parry to McLuhan to Neuroscience: a Multidisciplinary Dialogue as well as a Metalogue

2 Embodied and Embedded, Cognition and 'Culture': a Middle Ground and a Two-way Conversation

3 The Reading Mind

4 The Narrative Mind

5 Orality vs Literacy? On the Fallacy of Polar Oppositions

6 Looking Forward: Ubuntu and the Challenge Ahead

References

Part I: Oral Theory in Dialogue with (Neuro)science

Peter Meineck

Orality's Theory of Mind: the Necessity of Performance

1 Orality Is Performance

2 Literature Is not Performance

Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas

Oral Poetics and Multimodal Language Models

1 San Bushmen Under the Kalahari Moon

2 Indiana Jones De-aged

3 Oral Traditions, Writing, and Generative AI

4 Multimodal Paradoxes

5 The Need for Oral-traditional Poetic Performance

6 Oral Poetics Needs to Provide Data and Theory…Now

Ahuvia Kahane

New Dawns Forever: Orality and the Plasticity of Homer's Verse

1 Introduction. Dyads and Method

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

2 Homer, Orality, Exception

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

3 The Plasticity of Language

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

4 Complexity

4.1

4.2

4.3

5 The New Dawn

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

6 Conclusion. The Rule of Difference

6.1

6.2

Roberto Nicolai

The Clever Deception and Mirror Neurons

Part II: Storytelling and the Narrative Mind

Alberto Oliverio

The Narrative Mind. Narrating, Listening, Reading

1 Storytelling and Imagination

2 Imagination, Analogy, and Imaginary

3 Thought and Language

4 Listening to the Words, Observing the Lips&amp

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5 Writing and Reading

6 Writing: an Extension of the Mind

Andrea Ercolani

Storytelling and Greek Epic: How to Put the Experience in (Some) Order

1 Storytelling: a Cognitive Tool

2 Storytelling: an Effective Communication Tool

3 From the Human Universal to the Cultural Specific: Storytelling, Verbal Art, and the Specialised Storyteller

4 Organising and Transmitting What is Relevant: Storytelling and Tribal Encyclopaedia

Poetic Pains and Pleasures: Theory of Mind and the Reception of Epic Performance (Odyssey 8 and Beyond)

1 Demodocus' Performance: a Spotlight on Poetics

2 First Performance: the Quarrel between Achilles and Odysseus

3 Third Performance: the Guile of the Wooden Horse and Odysseus as a Widow

4 Concealing One's Tears: between Poetics and Xenia

5 Simulation Theory, ToM, and Phaeacians' Point of View

6 'Feeling with' but Keeping the Distance: Embodied Simulation and Poetic Reception

7 My Story is Mine to Sing

8 Too Close to Home: ἀναμνήσαντα οἰκήια κακὰ

9 Conclusions: Close, but not too Close

Part III: Case-studies from Homer to Rome

Riccardo Palmisciano

Demodocus, Odysseus, and the Double Standard of Authority in Speech

Margalit Finkelberg

Was Classical Athens an Oral Society?

1

2

3 Conclusions

Alessandro Vatri

The Need for Voice in Classical Greek: Reading, Complexity, and Prose Rhythm

1 Introduction

2 Silent Reading - a False Start

3 'Difficult' Sentences

4 The Key to Rhythm

5 Concluding Remarks

Maurizio Bettini

Solemn Words: Ritual Performance in Ancient Roman Courts

Index of Discussed Passages

Index of Notable Things.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-143484-2

OCLC:

1581077373