LITERACY AND ORALITY composition, performance and transmission - Softcover

Finnegan, Ruth

 
9780244660239: LITERACY AND ORALITY composition, performance and transmission

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Surprising conclusions about one of the great issues of our time by an acclaimed prize-winning expert. world-wide coverage brought home to our doorsteps. Startling, provocative and intensely readable.

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Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England.

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