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03012aam a2200361 i 4500 001 E01727A2EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200903010031 008 190217t20202020nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018058166 020 $a 1433161516 020 $a 9781433161513 035 $a (OCoLC)1089278671 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d MBB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a P211 $b .R633 2020 082 00 $a 302.2/24409 $2 23 100 1 $a Robinson, Gwen Groves, $e author. 245 10 $a Talk to text : $b ancient origins of western prose and the rransition from oral to written culture / $c Gwen Groves Robinson. 264 1 $a New York : $b Peter Lang, $c [2020] 300 $a xxiv, 486 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a What are we talking about? -- Literacy begins -- Orality : its characteristics -- In the clinging embrace of orality -- Prose claims acceptance -- The other lobe -- Fifth-century historians give a fillip to prose -- Moving towards perfection -- On matters of style -- Alexandria becomes the hub of Greek culture -- Early years -- The development of literary polish -- Relaxing the rule -- Latin picks up steam -- Winding up in the ancient world -- Christian influences on Latin literature -- Sunblink in the dusk -- Diving into pitch -- In the lands of mist -- England bestirs itself -- Northern achievements influence the continent -- A review of the writing arts today -- Termination. 520 $a "If talking and hearing are 'natural' modes of human communication, how then, did the artificial art of writing come to substitute so satisfyingly for them? and with such deft and commanding authority? Talk to Text: On the Ancient Origins of the Writing Craft examines the history of the writing skills that we now practice so casually. They were never a human entitlement. Our literary ancestors worked for them, starting from crude scratches on bone, stone, and pottery shards. Over centuries of corrective nitpicking, the Greeks, the classical and papal Romans, the sixth- to eighth-century Irish and Anglo-Saxons, and the Franco-Germanic peoples of the Carolingian renaissance all helped to make writing a flexible and powerful means of communication. Out of speech for the voice and the ear, they invented this secondary route for the transfer of thought--and that route was through the eye. The impact of this spectacular shift and its eventual, even thrilling, development as an art form are the twin topics of this book"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Writing $x History. 650 0 $a Written communication $x History. 650 7 $a Writing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01181638 650 7 $a Written communication. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01181697 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220303011034.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E01727A2EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search