Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture

Klappentext In our highly literate culture! orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance - theatre! film! television! story-telling! structured play - make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and pre-meditation! between transcription and textualization! between rehearsal! recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing orality has a technical side - how do young writers 'represent' the spoken language of their contemporaries? What are the rules governing the transcription of oral evidence in fiction and non-fiction? - but also a political and philosophical one: is the relationship between oral and written always a hierarchical one? Does the textualization of the oral destroy! more than it commemorates or preserves! the oral itself? Twelve wide-ranging essays explore these questions in the most up-to-date account of orality and literacy in modern Italian culture yet produced. Zusammenfassung This book lays more emphasis on orality as source, as process or performance, as outcome. It looks at the primacy of the spoken language that seems to be the main common feature to these two phenomena of Italian theatrical culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Orality! Literacy and Performance 1. Voice! Vision and Orality: Notes on Reading Adriana Cavarero 2. Histrionic Transgressions: The Dario Fo-Commedia dell'Arte Relationship Revisited 3. Le poetiche del 'teatro narrazione' fra 'scrittura oralizzante' e oralità-che-si-fa-testo 4. Composing! Reciting! Inscribing and Transcribing Playtexts in the Community Theatre of Monticchiello 5. An Oral Renarration of a Photoromance! 1960 6. Identità locali e giochi popolari in Italia tra oralità e scrittura Part II: Writing Orality 7. The Facets of Italian Orality: An Overview of the Recent Debate 8. Literature and Youth in the 1990s: Orality and the Written in Tiziano Scarpa's Cos'è questo fracasso? and Caliceti and Mozzi's Quello che ho da dirvi 9. Note su oralità e narrazione inattendibile 10. Voice and Events in Manlio Calegari's Comunisti e Partigiani: Genova 1942-1945 11. Oralità o stile? La trasmissione orale e le modalità narrative ne La Storia di Elsa Morante 12. Orality! Microhistory and Memory: Gesualdo Bufalino and Claudio Magris between Narrative and History ...

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Michael Caesar

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In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance - theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play - make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and pre-meditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing orality has a technical side - how do young writers 'represent' the spoken language of their contemporaries? What are the rules governing the transcription of oral evidence in fiction and non-fiction? - but also a political and philosophical one: is the relationship between oral and written always a hierarchical one? Does the textualization of the oral destroy, more than it commemorates or preserves, the oral itself? Twelve wide-ranging essays explore these questions in the most up-to-date account of orality and literacy in modern Italian culture yet produced.

Résumé
This book lays more emphasis on orality as source, as process or performance, as outcome. It looks at the primacy of the spoken language that seems to be the main common feature to these two phenomena of Italian theatrical culture.

Contenu
Introduction Part I: Orality, Literacy and Performance 1. Voice, Vision and Orality: Notes on Reading Adriana Cavarero 2. Histrionic Transgressions: The Dario FoCommedia dell'Arte Relationship Revisited 3. Le poetiche del 'teatro narrazione' fra 'scrittura oralizzante' e oralità-che-si-fa-testo 4. Composing, Reciting, Inscribing and Transcribing Playtexts in the Community Theatre of Monticchiello 5. An Oral Renarration of a Photoromance, 1960 6. Identità locali e giochi popolari in Italia tra oralità e scrittura Part II: Writing Orality 7. The Facets of Italian Orality: An Overview of the Recent Debate 8. Literature and Youth in the 1990s: Orality and the Written in Tiziano Scarpa's Cos'è questo fracasso? and Caliceti and Mozzi's Quello che ho da dirvi 9. Note su oralità e narrazione inattendibile 10. Voice and Events in Manlio Calegari's Comunisti e Partigiani: Genova 19421945 11. Oralità o stile? La trasmissione orale e le modalità narrative ne La Storia di Elsa Morante 12. Orality, Microhistory and Memory: Gesualdo Bufalino and Claudio Magris between Narrative and History