{"product_id":"the-ethnography-of-rhythm-9780823270460","title":"The Ethnography of Rhythm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Only Haun Saussy-with his historical range, theoretical breadth, and fine close-reading-could have pulled off this brilliant comparative history of 'the perturbation caused by the idea of oral literature.' The disciplinary range of this dazzling scholarly performance takes us from linguistics and philology to ethnography and religious studies, from physiology and psychiatry to the history of graphic and sound technologies. Be prepared to marvel-and learn.\" -- -Linda Hutcheon University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface      Introduction: Weighing Hearsay     1. Poetry Without Poems or Poets     \"Two or Three Hundred Rhythmic Formulae    Festivals of Rhythm     The Oral Style     Formula as System     Langue, Parole, and Constraint     2. Writing as One Form of Notation     The Epic Cyborg     \"Word for Word\"    Stitches in Time     3. Autography     The Inscribing Ear    \"Speech is a Movement\"    The Patois of Parnassus     A Difference of Fifteen Cycles     4. The Human Gramophone     \"Errores Modernistarum\"    The Gospel of Movement     A Bone Gallery    \"Four Obscure Jews\"    Gallo-Galilean Civilization     5. Embodiment and Inscription     Materials Science     Techniques of the Body     Notes     Bibliography     Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406144315735,"sku":"9780823270460","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823270460.jpg?v=1730494680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ethnography-of-rhythm-9780823270460","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}