Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Preliminaries 3
5. Section I. Taking Up the Issues
6. Histories of Literature and the Question of Comparative Oral Literary History 33
7. Levelling the Orality-Literacy Playing Field 47
8. Modes of Discourse, Modes of Rationality 63
9. Performing Writing and Singing Silence in the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition 73
10. Section II. Listening Performances
11. In The Storyteller’s House 93
12. The Game of the Little Secrets or How to Learn (and to Teach) Mechanisms of Orality 107
13. Significant Spaces Between 115
14. The Story of Story and a Canon of Story 126
15. Made for You and Me 135
16. Section III. Stories of Storytelling
17. “Oral” in Literary History 149
18. Making Space for the Spoken Word 162
19. Orality in Basque Literary Historiography 172
20. The Ladder Holds Up the World Above 182
21. Oral and Written Šukar Laviben of the Roma 194
22. Section IV. Communities in Comparative Encounters
23. Guaman Poma and His Traces 207
24. The Study of the Elements of Literary History of the Khoekhoe and ǂKhomani Languages of Southern Africa 217
25. The Stream of ǂKhomani Stories 243
26. The Puzzle of Voice 256
27. Talking Technologies 270
28. References 281
29. List of Contributors 309
30. Index 313