The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet / (Record no. 37033)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781139235693 (ebook) |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781107028111 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| Modifying agency | BD-SySUS. |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PA273 |
| Item number | .W664 2014 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 481/.1 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Woodard, Roger D., |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Roger D. Woodard. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (384 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek antiquity, the oral poets of Indo-European tradition had been called 'weavers of words' - their extemporaneous performance of poetry was 'word weaving'. With the arrival of the new technology of the alphabet and the onset of Greek literacy, the very act of producing written symbols was interpreted as a comparable performance activity, albeit one in which almost everyone could participate, not only the select few. It was this new conceptualization of and participation in performance activity by the masses that eventually, or perhaps quickly, resulted in the demise of oral composition in performance in Greece. In conjunction with this investigation, Woodard analyzes a set of copper plaques inscribed with repeated alphabetic series and a line of what he interprets to be text, which attests to this archaic Greek conceptualization of the performance of symbol crafting. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781107028111 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235693">http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235693</a> |
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