On Beyond Ong: Taking the Paradox Out of 'Oral Literacy' (and 'Literate Orality')
- Author / Editor
- Coleman, Joyce.
On Beyond Ong: Taking the Paradox Out of 'Oral Literacy' (and 'Literate Orality')
- Published
- Hildegard L. C. Tristram, ed. Medieval Insular Literature Between the Oral and the Written II: Continuity of Transmission. ScriptOralia, no.97. (Tubingen: Narr, 1997), pp.155-76.
- Description
- Challenges the blunt opposition between orality and literacy, arguing from evidence in Chaucer and Langland that transitional terms are needed. Borrowing from the linguistic terms "exophoric" and "endophoric," Coleman argues that the Wife of Bath's knowledge of books can be described as "endophoric aurality" (hearing of books read); such terminology would also enable us to discuss Chaucer's audience more precisely.
- Contributor
- Tristram, Hildegard L. C.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Insular Literature between the Oral and the Written II: Continuity of Transmission.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.