Pétur Knútsson
Spring 2006
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Illiteracy, Orality, Literacy and
Textuality
Ong,
Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologization of the Word. Methuen 1982.
This book comprises about 1/4 of the reading
load in the course. Other texts will be either required reading for the whole
class and individual choice reading.
Texts marked UU are available in Ugla > Ólæsi, læsi, texti > Reading
Lévy-Strauss: 'A Writing Lesson,' chap. 28 of Tristes Tropiques UU
Havelock, Ortigins of Western Literacy UU
Barfield, Saving the Appearances UU
The Whorfian hypothesis: Fishman 1980 UU
Plato: Phaedrus http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html
Republic http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.htm and UU
Francis Magoun, The Oral-Formulaic Character or Anglo-Saxon Poetry UU
Larry Benson, The Literary Character of Anglo-Saxon Fornulaic Poetry UU
Saxo: Ericus at the court of Frotho (Gesta V.II.10) UU
The First Grammarian UU
Roman Jakobson: Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning UU
Alfred: Preface to Pastoral Care:
The text in situ - Robinson, Editing OE texts
Sappho & Alceus, Wulf & Eadwacer
Charles Lock on Silent reading, double voicing UU
Augustine on Silent reading UU
Barthes, Death of the Author
Barthes on the scriptorium (Cr. et Vérité 76), Bonaventura
Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizome
Derrida
Ricoeur, What is a text? (1981:145-164) UU
Armentarius, Where is the text? (2004) UU
Benjamin, Barfield, Rosenzweig, Illich, Holquist-Bakhtin
Bruce Chatwin, Songlines. 1987; 1978 Penguin.
Knútsson, Landslag og texti
Donald McKenzie (Panizzi) UU