[ecrea] Oral Tradition and the Internet

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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Oct 2012 312pp 9780252078699 PB £19.99 now only £13.50 when you quote 
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