Ethics and Literary Worldmaking: Imaginative Discourse in Oral and Early Scribal Cultures

By Donald R. Wehrs

Considering poetry, narrative, and performances from diverse oral societies and the earliest scribal cultures, Ethics and Literary Worldmaking traces ways that both oral and written genres participate in communal shaping and reshaping of affectivity, sociality, deliberation, and evaluation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041128851
• ISBN13: 9781041128854
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"