Before literature: the nature of narrative without the written word
"Before Literature examines storytelling when, due to historical, technological or socio-economic circumstance, a narrative was neither shaped nor influenced by alphabetic literacy. How does a story unfold when carried solely in memory, when it could not be written down or externally stored? Wh...
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| Summary: | "Before Literature examines storytelling when, due to historical, technological or socio-economic circumstance, a narrative was neither shaped nor influenced by alphabetic literacy. How does a story unfold when carried solely in memory, when it could not be written down or externally stored? What structural and stylistic pressures were imposed when it had to travel through space and time exclusively by word of mouth? In Before Literature, Sheila J. Nayar addresses these very questions, guiding the reader in a lively and accessible manner through the key features of the storytelling that came before writing, print and digital communication. Nayar shows how narratives unaffected by these technologies, such as the Mahabharata and Homer's Odyssey, informed contemporary forms like Bollywood masala films, Hollywood spectaculars, comic books and beach reading. This clear and accessible guide is an ideal starting point for undergraduates approaching the study of orality. It offers a fundamentally different way of thinking about narrative, but also meaningfully and intelligibly discloses the "what" and "why" of literature, leading to a much deeper overall understanding and appreciation of its significance"-- |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 223 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780367242800 036724280X 9780367242817 0367242818 |
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Contents List offigures Acknowledgments x xii 1 Denaturalizing literacy 1 2 The story behind Before Literature 8 3 Existence without inscription 16 4 Myth and the mythical, epic and the epical 23 5 Why prelit matters 29 6 But there is always a but. 40 7 A beginning with no definitive beginning 44 8 A digression on the “once upon a time.of Star IVars 49 9 Beginning in medias res 52 10 Ending anti-гя medias res—and pro-status quo 56
viii 11 Contents “And this happened . and then this . and then. ” 61 12 Epic examples of episodic epics 67 13 [[Boxes] within boxes] within boxes 72 14 Flashbacks, masala style 78 15 Lists, lists, and more lists 84 16 In defense of clichés and the formulaic (yes, really!) 89 17 Repeat, recycle—and repeat (and recycle) 98 18 Whence the “traditional”? 105 19 The acoustic landscape 111 20 Ancestors and alienation 117 21 Alienation and participation 122 22 The agon of audiences—but, even more, of actors 129 23 Blood and guts 133 24 Violence + veneration = a polarized world 139 25 When exteriority is not a bad thing 143 26 But, what of art? What of aesthetics? 153 27 Oral embodiment 157
Contents їх 28 Superhuman vessels 163 29 Is an (/psychological necessarily unreal? 169 30 Animating abstract knowledge 175 31 The absence of irony, the pleasure of parody 180 32 Is there an oral chronosense? 190 33 Do intellectuals suffer from alphabetically literate elitism? 195 34 Why the humanities matter—to all of us 207 Index 212
Before Literature examines storytelling that, whether due to historical, technological, or socio-economic circumstance, is neither shaped nor influenced by alphabetic literacy. How does a story unfold when carried solely in memory, when it cannot be written down or externally stored? What structural and stylistic pressures are imposed when it must travel through space and time exclusively by word of mouth? In Before Literature, Sheila J. Nayar addresses these very questions, guiding the reader in a lively and accessible manner through the key features of storytelling that’s been unaffected by writing. Even more, Nayar shows how the very norms that drove oral epics such as the Mahabharata and Homer’s Odyssey can continue to shape contemporary forms like Bollywood masala films, Hollywood spectaculars, and comic books. This clear and accessible guide is an ideal starting point for undergraduates approaching the study of orality. It offers a fundamentally different way of thinking about oral narrative, while also disclosing some of the “hows" and "whys" of written literature, leading to a much broader understanding and appreciation of our storytelling tradition. |
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