Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This book explores the concepts of nationality and culture in the context of 19th-century Scottish fiction, through the writing of Walter Scott, James Hogg, R. L. Stevenson, and Margaret Oliphant. It ...
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This book explores the concepts of nationality and culture in the context of 19th-century Scottish fiction, through the writing of Walter Scott, James Hogg, R. L. Stevenson, and Margaret Oliphant. It describes the relationship between speech writing as a foundation of the literary construction of a particular national identity, exploring how orality and literacy are figured in 19th-century preoccupations with the definition of ‘culture’. It further examines the importance of romance revival in the ascendancy of the novel and the development of that genre across a century which saw the novel stripped of its female associations and accorded a masculine authority, touching on the sexualization of language in the discourse between women's narrative (oral) and men's narrative (written). The book's importance for literary studies lies in the investigation of some of the consequences of deconstruction. It explores how the speech/writing opposition is open to the influence of social and material forces. Focusing on the writing of Scott, Hogg, Stevenson, and Oliphant, it looks at the conflicts in narratological experiments in Scottish writing, constructions of class and gender, the effects of popular literacy, and the material condition of books as artefacts and commodities. This book offers a broad picture of the interaction of Scottish fiction and modern theoretical thinking, taking its roots from a combination of deconstruction, narrative theory, the history of orality, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.Less
This book explores the concepts of nationality and culture in the context of 19th-century Scottish fiction, through the writing of Walter Scott, James Hogg, R. L. Stevenson, and Margaret Oliphant. It describes the relationship between speech writing as a foundation of the literary construction of a particular national identity, exploring how orality and literacy are figured in 19th-century preoccupations with the definition of ‘culture’. It further examines the importance of romance revival in the ascendancy of the novel and the development of that genre across a century which saw the novel stripped of its female associations and accorded a masculine authority, touching on the sexualization of language in the discourse between women's narrative (oral) and men's narrative (written). The book's importance for literary studies lies in the investigation of some of the consequences of deconstruction. It explores how the speech/writing opposition is open to the influence of social and material forces. Focusing on the writing of Scott, Hogg, Stevenson, and Oliphant, it looks at the conflicts in narratological experiments in Scottish writing, constructions of class and gender, the effects of popular literacy, and the material condition of books as artefacts and commodities. This book offers a broad picture of the interaction of Scottish fiction and modern theoretical thinking, taking its roots from a combination of deconstruction, narrative theory, the history of orality, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.
Thomas A. Schmitz
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780197265420
- eISBN:
- 9780191760471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265420.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter looks at Ancient Greek texts as a foil for Ancient Egyptian literature. Scholars who work on cultural products of premodern societies will always be faced with the question whether, by ...
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This chapter looks at Ancient Greek texts as a foil for Ancient Egyptian literature. Scholars who work on cultural products of premodern societies will always be faced with the question whether, by using modern terminology, they are unconsciously importing anachronistic and thus inappropriate concepts into their research. The word ‘literature’ implies literacy, but it is an open question whether the fundamental qualities of writing can reside in texts which have been produced and received as written and read texts. The chapter argues that the awareness of the special quality of literary texts can indeed be found in the earliest Greek texts. It compares the ways in which speaker and addressee are constructed in early oral poetry (such as lyrics and epic) and early written texts (such as epigrams) and argues that there is no clear-cut boundary between the two modes.Less
This chapter looks at Ancient Greek texts as a foil for Ancient Egyptian literature. Scholars who work on cultural products of premodern societies will always be faced with the question whether, by using modern terminology, they are unconsciously importing anachronistic and thus inappropriate concepts into their research. The word ‘literature’ implies literacy, but it is an open question whether the fundamental qualities of writing can reside in texts which have been produced and received as written and read texts. The chapter argues that the awareness of the special quality of literary texts can indeed be found in the earliest Greek texts. It compares the ways in which speaker and addressee are constructed in early oral poetry (such as lyrics and epic) and early written texts (such as epigrams) and argues that there is no clear-cut boundary between the two modes.
Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153384
- eISBN:
- 9781400841820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153384.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on the significance of Madame Catherine-Anne d'Aulnoy and the French writers of fairy tales in the 1690s. d'Aulnoy coined the term “fairy tale” in 1697, when she published her ...
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This chapter focuses on the significance of Madame Catherine-Anne d'Aulnoy and the French writers of fairy tales in the 1690s. d'Aulnoy coined the term “fairy tale” in 1697, when she published her first collection of tales. But it was not until 1750 that the term “fairy tale” came into common English usage. The chapter explores the historical importance of the term “fairy tale” in greater depth by discussing the role of the fairies in d'Aulnoy's works. It also looks at how fairies were part of a long oral and literary tradition in French culture, and how d'Aulnoy's employment of fairies in her tales owes a debt to Greek and Roman myths, the opera, theatrical spectacles, debates about the role of women in French society, and French folklore.Less
This chapter focuses on the significance of Madame Catherine-Anne d'Aulnoy and the French writers of fairy tales in the 1690s. d'Aulnoy coined the term “fairy tale” in 1697, when she published her first collection of tales. But it was not until 1750 that the term “fairy tale” came into common English usage. The chapter explores the historical importance of the term “fairy tale” in greater depth by discussing the role of the fairies in d'Aulnoy's works. It also looks at how fairies were part of a long oral and literary tradition in French culture, and how d'Aulnoy's employment of fairies in her tales owes a debt to Greek and Roman myths, the opera, theatrical spectacles, debates about the role of women in French society, and French folklore.
Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153384
- eISBN:
- 9781400841820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153384.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter deals with a significant, but obfuscated category of nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales that deserves greater attention: tales told, collected, and written by women. Hardly ...
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This chapter deals with a significant, but obfuscated category of nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales that deserves greater attention: tales told, collected, and written by women. Hardly anyoneknows anything about the tales of Laura Gonzenbach, Božena Němcová, Nannette Lévesque, and Rachel Busk, despite the great advances made in feminist studies that led to the rediscovery of important women European writers of fairy tales from the seventeenth century to the present. Not only are the tales by Gonzenbach, Němcová, Lévesque, and Busk pertinent for what they reveal about the beliefs and customs of specific communities in the nineteenth century and about the role of women, but they are also valuable in the study of folklore for elucidating the problematic aspects of orality and literacy, and the interpretation of particular tale types such as the innocent persecuted heroine.Less
This chapter deals with a significant, but obfuscated category of nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales that deserves greater attention: tales told, collected, and written by women. Hardly anyoneknows anything about the tales of Laura Gonzenbach, Božena Němcová, Nannette Lévesque, and Rachel Busk, despite the great advances made in feminist studies that led to the rediscovery of important women European writers of fairy tales from the seventeenth century to the present. Not only are the tales by Gonzenbach, Němcová, Lévesque, and Busk pertinent for what they reveal about the beliefs and customs of specific communities in the nineteenth century and about the role of women, but they are also valuable in the study of folklore for elucidating the problematic aspects of orality and literacy, and the interpretation of particular tale types such as the innocent persecuted heroine.
Charlotte Linde
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195140286
- eISBN:
- 9780199871247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140286.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter analyzes three examples of a single story about the founder: two written versions and an oral version. The comparison demonstrates two separate dynamics in the life of a narrative within ...
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This chapter analyzes three examples of a single story about the founder: two written versions and an oral version. The comparison demonstrates two separate dynamics in the life of a narrative within an institution. The first shows how a speaker's position shapes the microstructure of the narrative: in particular, how a story about the founder is told either as an account of his management skills, or as an account of his care for his agents, and the skills and character traits which his agents still share with him. The comparison also shows the complex relation between written and oral narrative: the continuous movement of a narrative from oral form to written form back to oral form, which continues without a final fixed version. Thus, the process of transmission of folk tales and oral culture is shown to be alive in the American corporation.Less
This chapter analyzes three examples of a single story about the founder: two written versions and an oral version. The comparison demonstrates two separate dynamics in the life of a narrative within an institution. The first shows how a speaker's position shapes the microstructure of the narrative: in particular, how a story about the founder is told either as an account of his management skills, or as an account of his care for his agents, and the skills and character traits which his agents still share with him. The comparison also shows the complex relation between written and oral narrative: the continuous movement of a narrative from oral form to written form back to oral form, which continues without a final fixed version. Thus, the process of transmission of folk tales and oral culture is shown to be alive in the American corporation.
Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199217182
- eISBN:
- 9780191712388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217182.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The Introduction pursues the theme of identity by considering the varieties of ‘family’ in the plays. The grounding of civilization is investigated by means of the dichotomy of orality and ...
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The Introduction pursues the theme of identity by considering the varieties of ‘family’ in the plays. The grounding of civilization is investigated by means of the dichotomy of orality and literature, as well as the polarity between Thebes and Athens. To develop this analysis, the profile and potential of Oedipus and Antigone in Western and African philosophical traditions is examined. The book's argument about cultural transmission contends that the African-descended adaptations of Oedipus and Antigone indict colonial culture for the infliction of oedipal violence, while themselves enacting an oedipal bind as they simultaneously embrace and resist those cultures. Above and beyond this bind, the plays offer more benign models of transmission constituted within the African continent and diaspora. The Introduction recasts the arguments of Freud and Bloom by a focus on Fanon, and advocates a specific theoretical re-orientation of reception studies to equip it to do postcolonial analysis.Less
The Introduction pursues the theme of identity by considering the varieties of ‘family’ in the plays. The grounding of civilization is investigated by means of the dichotomy of orality and literature, as well as the polarity between Thebes and Athens. To develop this analysis, the profile and potential of Oedipus and Antigone in Western and African philosophical traditions is examined. The book's argument about cultural transmission contends that the African-descended adaptations of Oedipus and Antigone indict colonial culture for the infliction of oedipal violence, while themselves enacting an oedipal bind as they simultaneously embrace and resist those cultures. Above and beyond this bind, the plays offer more benign models of transmission constituted within the African continent and diaspora. The Introduction recasts the arguments of Freud and Bloom by a focus on Fanon, and advocates a specific theoretical re-orientation of reception studies to equip it to do postcolonial analysis.
Martin S. Jaffee
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195140675
- eISBN:
- 9780199834334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195140672.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Explores the role of orality and oral‐performative tradition in the written literary activities of various scribal communities in Second Temple Judaism. It points out that true literacy was rare ...
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Explores the role of orality and oral‐performative tradition in the written literary activities of various scribal communities in Second Temple Judaism. It points out that true literacy was rare among Jews in this period, and was confined to various professional scribal groups associated with the Temple and its governing agencies. Even among scribal groups who created literary works, writing and literary transmission was highly oral in character. Nevertheless, these groups did not radically distinguish oral tradition from the written tradition of books claimed to stem from prophetic revelations. Rather, books were seen to stem from a kind of oral dictation from God to the prophet, as in the Testament of Levi and 4 Ezra, who functioned as a kind of scribe in transmitting the words of a divine or angelic author.Less
Explores the role of orality and oral‐performative tradition in the written literary activities of various scribal communities in Second Temple Judaism. It points out that true literacy was rare among Jews in this period, and was confined to various professional scribal groups associated with the Temple and its governing agencies. Even among scribal groups who created literary works, writing and literary transmission was highly oral in character. Nevertheless, these groups did not radically distinguish oral tradition from the written tradition of books claimed to stem from prophetic revelations. Rather, books were seen to stem from a kind of oral dictation from God to the prophet, as in the Testament of Levi and 4 Ezra, who functioned as a kind of scribe in transmitting the words of a divine or angelic author.
Francesca Prescendi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199582570
- eISBN:
- 9780191595271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582570.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter explores two ways, mechanical and deliberate, of transmitting and memorizing religion. The first one is a technical knowledge: children learn the rites by imitating their parents. They ...
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This chapter explores two ways, mechanical and deliberate, of transmitting and memorizing religion. The first one is a technical knowledge: children learn the rites by imitating their parents. They also accomplish religious tasks during the domestic and public rites. In public rites, only boys and girls called patrimi matrimique, whose parents are still alive, are allowed to participate as cultual servants. The second method is a more conscious learning process. The children are taught deliberately when they enter a religious priesthood; they learn from older and experienced priests how to perform the rites. Furthermore, the preceptors teach the history and/or the constitution of religious colleges to young students of prominent families, who will one day be part of them. The analysis shows that Roman citizens thus not only learned the sequence of ritual acts during their childhood, but they also acquired a sense of their religion through them, without needing further theoretical explanations.Less
This chapter explores two ways, mechanical and deliberate, of transmitting and memorizing religion. The first one is a technical knowledge: children learn the rites by imitating their parents. They also accomplish religious tasks during the domestic and public rites. In public rites, only boys and girls called patrimi matrimique, whose parents are still alive, are allowed to participate as cultual servants. The second method is a more conscious learning process. The children are taught deliberately when they enter a religious priesthood; they learn from older and experienced priests how to perform the rites. Furthermore, the preceptors teach the history and/or the constitution of religious colleges to young students of prominent families, who will one day be part of them. The analysis shows that Roman citizens thus not only learned the sequence of ritual acts during their childhood, but they also acquired a sense of their religion through them, without needing further theoretical explanations.
Filippo de Vivo
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199227068
- eISBN:
- 9780191711114
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199227068.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Today, in an age of spin-doctoring and media power, we take it for granted that information and politics affect each other. This book investigates the political uses of communication in 16th- and ...
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Today, in an age of spin-doctoring and media power, we take it for granted that information and politics affect each other. This book investigates the political uses of communication in 16th- and 17th-century Venice. Unlike traditional book history, it defines communication broadly, encompassing orality and literacy, manuscript and print: from council debates to written reports, newsletters, rumours, graffiti, and pamphlets. The book combines political and cultural history, urban history, and the history of the book. Chapters 1-3 discuss communication at different levels: the government; the political arena of factions and professional informers; the city of ordinary people without personal connection with the authorities. Chapters 4-6 analyse the interaction between these spheres both in peace and in conflict (e.g., during the Venetian Interdict of 1606-7, in which Paolo Sarpi played a prominent role as information strategist). The book rethinks the boundaries of early modern politics. Traditional political historians view events from the upper windows of government buildings, while social historians have taught us to look at history from below. Neither perspective is sufficient in isolation. Even secretive oligarchs ensconced inside the Ducal Palace were constantly preoccupied by their vociferous subjects in the squares below. Politics involved not just patricians but ordinary people. They were denied any institutional political role and, in Venice's proverbially pacific history, mostly abstained from extra-institutional collective activities like rioting. Barred from political action, however, they participated in political communication, a form of political action which could influence the conduct of high politics.Less
Today, in an age of spin-doctoring and media power, we take it for granted that information and politics affect each other. This book investigates the political uses of communication in 16th- and 17th-century Venice. Unlike traditional book history, it defines communication broadly, encompassing orality and literacy, manuscript and print: from council debates to written reports, newsletters, rumours, graffiti, and pamphlets. The book combines political and cultural history, urban history, and the history of the book. Chapters 1-3 discuss communication at different levels: the government; the political arena of factions and professional informers; the city of ordinary people without personal connection with the authorities. Chapters 4-6 analyse the interaction between these spheres both in peace and in conflict (e.g., during the Venetian Interdict of 1606-7, in which Paolo Sarpi played a prominent role as information strategist). The book rethinks the boundaries of early modern politics. Traditional political historians view events from the upper windows of government buildings, while social historians have taught us to look at history from below. Neither perspective is sufficient in isolation. Even secretive oligarchs ensconced inside the Ducal Palace were constantly preoccupied by their vociferous subjects in the squares below. Politics involved not just patricians but ordinary people. They were denied any institutional political role and, in Venice's proverbially pacific history, mostly abstained from extra-institutional collective activities like rioting. Barred from political action, however, they participated in political communication, a form of political action which could influence the conduct of high politics.
Busse Berger Anna Maria
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520240285
- eISBN:
- 9780520930643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520240285.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the memorization of medieval music. It discusses how the oral and written transmission of music interacts with the art of memory and ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the memorization of medieval music. It discusses how the oral and written transmission of music interacts with the art of memory and the effect of mnemotechnics on medieval performers, composers, and the music they produced. This study should allow us to give up the naive picture of a written musical culture replacing an oral one with the more complicated picture of a culture in which orality and literacy interacted in many, often unexpected, ways.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the memorization of medieval music. It discusses how the oral and written transmission of music interacts with the art of memory and the effect of mnemotechnics on medieval performers, composers, and the music they produced. This study should allow us to give up the naive picture of a written musical culture replacing an oral one with the more complicated picture of a culture in which orality and literacy interacted in many, often unexpected, ways.
Huatong Sun
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744763
- eISBN:
- 9780199932993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744763.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Models and Architectures
This chapter explores the complexities of local culture beyond the models of cultural dimensions with a Chinese user case. It regards Chinese graduate student Mei’s late night message exchanges as a ...
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This chapter explores the complexities of local culture beyond the models of cultural dimensions with a Chinese user case. It regards Chinese graduate student Mei’s late night message exchanges as a new form of fan innovation and a literacy practice. In comparison to Brian’s orality practice in the previous chapter, this chapter discusses how different cultural preferences lead to different use and genre patterns of text messaging and contribute to different meanings. It exemplifies the dialogical nature of technology in cross-cultural technology design and illustrates many factors, other than cultural dimensions, contributed to this particular local use. Meanwhile Mei’s case also epitomizes the importance of “constructive subjectiveness” in technology design as her identity as a sports fan was a driving force in her creative way of using and localizing a technology.Less
This chapter explores the complexities of local culture beyond the models of cultural dimensions with a Chinese user case. It regards Chinese graduate student Mei’s late night message exchanges as a new form of fan innovation and a literacy practice. In comparison to Brian’s orality practice in the previous chapter, this chapter discusses how different cultural preferences lead to different use and genre patterns of text messaging and contribute to different meanings. It exemplifies the dialogical nature of technology in cross-cultural technology design and illustrates many factors, other than cultural dimensions, contributed to this particular local use. Meanwhile Mei’s case also epitomizes the importance of “constructive subjectiveness” in technology design as her identity as a sports fan was a driving force in her creative way of using and localizing a technology.
Filippo De Vivo
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199227068
- eISBN:
- 9780191711114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199227068.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter turns to the diverse social world surrounding the political elites: apothecaries, notaries, barbers, weavers, scriveners, mercers, boatmen, courtisans, and washerwomen. The emphasis here ...
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This chapter turns to the diverse social world surrounding the political elites: apothecaries, notaries, barbers, weavers, scriveners, mercers, boatmen, courtisans, and washerwomen. The emphasis here is on orality: on the discussions and rumours flourishing in the city and breaking down both social and (to some extent) gender barriers. Based on the records of counter–intelligence informers, the chapter traces the movement of information throughout groups of people gathered together to discuss the latest news in the marketplace, at the Rialto, or in the city's shops (pharmacies and barbershops being especially notable). By carefully considering the material culture of these places and of their customers, and by emphasizing the economic ties linking commerce and communication (news, business brokering, and marketing), it offers a revision of Habermas' abstract theory of the public sphere. It also reconstructs a world of popular politics and factionalism extending well beyond the traditional political elites.Less
This chapter turns to the diverse social world surrounding the political elites: apothecaries, notaries, barbers, weavers, scriveners, mercers, boatmen, courtisans, and washerwomen. The emphasis here is on orality: on the discussions and rumours flourishing in the city and breaking down both social and (to some extent) gender barriers. Based on the records of counter–intelligence informers, the chapter traces the movement of information throughout groups of people gathered together to discuss the latest news in the marketplace, at the Rialto, or in the city's shops (pharmacies and barbershops being especially notable). By carefully considering the material culture of these places and of their customers, and by emphasizing the economic ties linking commerce and communication (news, business brokering, and marketing), it offers a revision of Habermas' abstract theory of the public sphere. It also reconstructs a world of popular politics and factionalism extending well beyond the traditional political elites.
Filippo De Vivo
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199227068
- eISBN:
- 9780191711114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199227068.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Each of the communication spheres presented so far also needed to communicate with the others. This chapter analyses their contacts and conflicts. First, it discusses the interaction between literate ...
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Each of the communication spheres presented so far also needed to communicate with the others. This chapter analyses their contacts and conflicts. First, it discusses the interaction between literate and oral communication, suggesting that literacy was itself a drive for social transactions. It then addresses the official publication of laws and decrees: for all its secretiveness, the government's authority rested on its capacity to reach out to the subjects. Yet official publication also often led to resistance, as people prevented publication and destroyed decrees. Thus, normative messages never dominated the city's public space, but had to compete with alternative forms of public communication, for example graffiti and posted texts (Venice's equivalent of the Roman pasquinades). The chapter concludes with a case study of one such texts, the Paternoster degli Spagnoli, which circulated widely during the French wars of religion and beyond, as a critical parody of political domination.Less
Each of the communication spheres presented so far also needed to communicate with the others. This chapter analyses their contacts and conflicts. First, it discusses the interaction between literate and oral communication, suggesting that literacy was itself a drive for social transactions. It then addresses the official publication of laws and decrees: for all its secretiveness, the government's authority rested on its capacity to reach out to the subjects. Yet official publication also often led to resistance, as people prevented publication and destroyed decrees. Thus, normative messages never dominated the city's public space, but had to compete with alternative forms of public communication, for example graffiti and posted texts (Venice's equivalent of the Roman pasquinades). The chapter concludes with a case study of one such texts, the Paternoster degli Spagnoli, which circulated widely during the French wars of religion and beyond, as a critical parody of political domination.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the uses of orality. It then discusses orality and writing, Scottish orality, orality and ownership, and the rites of speech. An overview of the ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the uses of orality. It then discusses orality and writing, Scottish orality, orality and ownership, and the rites of speech. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the uses of orality. It then discusses orality and writing, Scottish orality, orality and ownership, and the rites of speech. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Scotland's construction of a national identity in the 19th century is inextricably bound up in the means of its own transmission. Before we can begin to unravel the complex narratives that make up ...
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Scotland's construction of a national identity in the 19th century is inextricably bound up in the means of its own transmission. Before we can begin to unravel the complex narratives that make up the stories of a country that was constantly redefining its own internal borders and divisions, its relationship to England, and its place within Britain and in Europe, we need to give some attention to the forms out of which such narratives were constructed. It is shown that by the mid-19th century, the oral was joining the pastoral in a sentimentalized past where it could more safely be contained. By confining it to the past it was possible to again reassert orality as a better mode than the corrupting influence of popular literature; teaching people to read could now no longer be regarded as the best way of practising democracy while ensuring moral stability.Less
Scotland's construction of a national identity in the 19th century is inextricably bound up in the means of its own transmission. Before we can begin to unravel the complex narratives that make up the stories of a country that was constantly redefining its own internal borders and divisions, its relationship to England, and its place within Britain and in Europe, we need to give some attention to the forms out of which such narratives were constructed. It is shown that by the mid-19th century, the oral was joining the pastoral in a sentimentalized past where it could more safely be contained. By confining it to the past it was possible to again reassert orality as a better mode than the corrupting influence of popular literature; teaching people to read could now no longer be regarded as the best way of practising democracy while ensuring moral stability.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter begins with a discussion of the problematic evaluation of speech and writing faced by Scottish writers. It then focuses on Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, which represented ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the problematic evaluation of speech and writing faced by Scottish writers. It then focuses on Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, which represented the chance to promote oral literature, but is also a site in which contradictory uses of orality come into conflict. It also considers The Monastery, which deals with the physicality of the written word, and the various ways whereby it can acquire authority.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the problematic evaluation of speech and writing faced by Scottish writers. It then focuses on Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, which represented the chance to promote oral literature, but is also a site in which contradictory uses of orality come into conflict. It also considers The Monastery, which deals with the physicality of the written word, and the various ways whereby it can acquire authority.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter focuses on James Hogg's The Three Perils of Man, one of his more extended analyses of storytelling. The novel, published in 1822, defeats any attempt at categorization; its plot alone is ...
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This chapter focuses on James Hogg's The Three Perils of Man, one of his more extended analyses of storytelling. The novel, published in 1822, defeats any attempt at categorization; its plot alone is composed of so many strands and individual stories that is not easy to give a coherent account of it. Outwardly a historical novel, Perils of Man tells the story of a Border conflict in which the Scots and the English vie for possession of Roxburgh Castle.Less
This chapter focuses on James Hogg's The Three Perils of Man, one of his more extended analyses of storytelling. The novel, published in 1822, defeats any attempt at categorization; its plot alone is composed of so many strands and individual stories that is not easy to give a coherent account of it. Outwardly a historical novel, Perils of Man tells the story of a Border conflict in which the Scots and the English vie for possession of Roxburgh Castle.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter is about Hogg's and Scott's different attempts to represent oral storytelling in print. By looking closely at some stories by Scott and Hogg, we can see what happens when the ...
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This chapter is about Hogg's and Scott's different attempts to represent oral storytelling in print. By looking closely at some stories by Scott and Hogg, we can see what happens when the negotiations of storytelling encounter the demand for true narratives.Less
This chapter is about Hogg's and Scott's different attempts to represent oral storytelling in print. By looking closely at some stories by Scott and Hogg, we can see what happens when the negotiations of storytelling encounter the demand for true narratives.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Some of the most important recent work on Scottish writing has been on the development of the romance in the first half of the late 19th century. By the end of the 19th century, an increasingly ...
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Some of the most important recent work on Scottish writing has been on the development of the romance in the first half of the late 19th century. By the end of the 19th century, an increasingly emphatic masculinization of the romance and its laying claim to an imaginative authenticity came under stresses and strains which its adherents could not withstand. Nevertheless, the particular problems of later 19th-century oral did not hinder its enthusiastic adoption by participants in two important debates at this point: one about popular literature and the other about realism in fiction. This chapter shows that for Andrew Lang and Robert Louis Stevenson, the romance became a way of negotiating a place in these debates, and they continued to organize their arguments along the lines of speech and writing.Less
Some of the most important recent work on Scottish writing has been on the development of the romance in the first half of the late 19th century. By the end of the 19th century, an increasingly emphatic masculinization of the romance and its laying claim to an imaginative authenticity came under stresses and strains which its adherents could not withstand. Nevertheless, the particular problems of later 19th-century oral did not hinder its enthusiastic adoption by participants in two important debates at this point: one about popular literature and the other about realism in fiction. This chapter shows that for Andrew Lang and Robert Louis Stevenson, the romance became a way of negotiating a place in these debates, and they continued to organize their arguments along the lines of speech and writing.
Penny Fielding
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198121800
- eISBN:
- 9780191671319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121800.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter focuses on Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae. The novel occupies a pivotal position in the study of speech and writing in Scottish culture. It looks back at the social incarnations of ...
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This chapter focuses on Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae. The novel occupies a pivotal position in the study of speech and writing in Scottish culture. It looks back at the social incarnations of the oral in the earlier part of the 19th century as well as examining its later reappearance in the imperialist romance. The novel is also important because it goes directly to the heart of the opposition between speech and writing, and asks if such a distinction, freed from socially determining factors, can ever be sustained.Less
This chapter focuses on Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae. The novel occupies a pivotal position in the study of speech and writing in Scottish culture. It looks back at the social incarnations of the oral in the earlier part of the 19th century as well as examining its later reappearance in the imperialist romance. The novel is also important because it goes directly to the heart of the opposition between speech and writing, and asks if such a distinction, freed from socially determining factors, can ever be sustained.
