Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Vol. 13

by Edited by Deborah Beck

This edited volume, arising from the 2019 conference "Orality and Literacy: Repetition," explores some of the many forms and uses of repetition, in poetry, philosophy, and inscriptions, from Homeric epic through the Latin novel and the Gospels to reception in the twentieth century. All human communication depends on repeating signs that are comprehensible to the speaker and the addressee. Yet "repetition" takes many specific forms, in different performance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004466622
• ISBN13: 9789004466623
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 412 Pages