Phrasikleia : an anthropology of reading in ancient Greece / Jesper Svenbro ; translated by Janet Lloyd
1993, First Edition. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #390499
ISBN: 0801425190
Physical description: 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrations. Notes
Translation of: Phrasikleia : anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- 1. Phrasikleia: From Silence to Sound -- 2. I Write, Therefore I Efface Myself: The Speech-Act in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions -- 3. The Reader and the Reading Voice: The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud -- 4. The Child as Signifier: The "Inscription" of the Proper Name -- 5. The Writer's Daughter: Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors -- 6. Nomos, "Exegesis," Reading: The Reading Voice and the Law -- 7. True Metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides -- 8. Death by Writing: Sappho, the Poem, and the Reader -- 9. The Inner Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading -- 10. The Reader and the eromenos: The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing.
Subjects: Books and reading Greece History.
Language and culture Greece. Literacy Greece History. nthropology Cultural. Books and reading. Civilization.
Language and culture.
Literacy. Authors and readers Greece History
Homosexuality and literature Greece
Oral reading. Reading Greece History
Reading, Psychology of
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Books and reading Greece History. Language and culture Greece.
Literacy Greece History.
Books and reading Greece History. Language and culture Greece.
Literacy Greece History.
Books and reading.
Civilization. Language and culture. Literacy.
Lesen. Culture. History.
Lesen. Books and reading Greece. Language and culture Greece. Literacy Greece. Phrasikleia (Greek word). Lecture Grèce Mythologie. Communication écrite Grèce Antiquité.
Greece Civilization.
Greece Civilization. Books and reading Greece History
Greece Civilization. Language and culture Greece. Literacy Greece History.
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