Epigenetic Cell Memory

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction. Rethinking Orality: Some Reasons for a Research VII
4. The Sources of Orality: Belief, Opinion, Acceptance 1
5. Words, Gestures, Brains and Caves. Remarks on the Material Bases of Language 19
6. Epigenetic Cell Memory 37
7. Some Remarks on Orality and the Antinomy between Writing and Speaking in Western Linguistic Thought 49
8. Beyond Orality: The Case of Sign Languages 69
9. Epic and Ethology: The ‘Saddleback Model’. An Analogical Model for the Study of Archaic Greek Epic 89
10. To Speak Like a Bird: Beyond a Literary Topos 105
11. Epos and Paideia between Orality and Writing 119
12. Muses and Teachers: Poets’ Apprenticeship in the Greek Epic Tradition 147
13. From Oral Theory to Neuroscience: a Dialogue on Communication 167
14. Plato and the Charm of Epideictics in the Menexenus 199
15. Erga Gynaikon: Female Supremacy in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women 215
16. Index of Discussed Passages 233
17. Index of Notable Things 237