The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present by Eric A. Havelock

The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

Eric A. Havelock

154 pages paperback 1986

6 editions

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When oral culture becomes literate, in what way does human consciousness itself change? And how does the new form of communication affect the content and meaning of texts? In this book, one of the most original and penetrating thinkers in Greek st...

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