The Ethnography of Rhythm - (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics) by Haun Saussy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema).<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies</b> <p/>Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"--core ideas of modern literary theory--were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts--starting with Homer and the Bible--had emerged from an oral tradition, assumptions on how to read these texts were greatly perturbed. Through readings that range from ancient Greece, Rome, and China to the Cold War imaginary, The Ethnography of Rhythm situates the study of oral traditions in the contentious space of nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about language, mind, and culture. It also demonstrates the role of technologies in framing this category of poetic creation. By making possible a new understanding of Maussian "techniques of the body" as belonging to the domain of Derridean "arche-writing," Haun Saussy shows how oral tradition is a means of inscription in its own right, rather than an antecedent made obsolete by the written word or other media and data-storage devices.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...scholars working across a wide range of fields of literary and linguistic study will find a wealth of insight here.-- "Review 31"<br><br>Saussy's finely detailed scholarship is of import to both folklorists and literary scholars, each of whom has something to learn from the other. Whatever you thought oral literature was, Saussy makes you think again.-- "Western Folklore"<br><br>Only Haun Saussy--with his historical range, theoretical breadth, and fine close-reading--could have pulled off this brilliant comparative history of 'the perturbation caused by the idea of oral literature.' The disciplinary range of this dazzling scholarly performance takes us from linguistics and philology to ethnography and religious studies, from physiology and psychiatry to the history of graphic and sound technologies. Be prepared to marvel--and learn.<b>-----Linda Hutcheon, <i>University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Haun Saussy</b> is University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
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