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[ecrea] Oral Tradition and the Internet

Wed Nov 07 15:31:50 GMT 2012




Oral Tradition and the Internet

Pathways of the Mind



John Miles Foley



"This work adds a decisive and stunning new dimension to John Miles Foley's already distinguished contributions to the study of oral traditions--ancient, medieval, and modern. His demonstration that they share significant features with the composition and communication of cultural production deploying digital technology and the internet will provoke a major upheaval in the study of long-term media history." Thomas Pettitt, co-editor of The Ballad as Narrative: Studies in the Ballad Tradition of England, Scotland, Germany, and Denmark



"Oral Tradition and the Internet is a stunningly ambitious and highly provocative multi-platform project in which John Miles Foley invites the reader to join him on a fascinating and compelling exploration of the interconnected architectonics of the human mind and the Internet. Wide-ranging, challenging, and intellectually rich, it will have an enormous and revolutionary impact on the field of oral studies and on many interconnected fields of humanistic study. Because it is as accessible as it is erudite, it will appeal alike to the specialist and non-specialist reader." Mark C. Amodio, author of Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England



The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind’s oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. To illustrate these ideas, this volume is designed as a “morphing book,” a collection of linked nodes that can be read in innumerable different ways. Challenging the default medium of the linear book and page and all that they entail, this “brick-and- mortar” book exists as an extension of The Pathways Project (http://pathwaysproject.org), an open-access online suite of chapter-nodes, linked websites, and multimedia all dedicated to exploring and demonstrating the dynamic relationship between oral tradition and Internet technology.



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