9780199793983-0199793980-Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome

Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome

ISBN-13: 9780199793983
ISBN-10: 0199793980
Edition: Reprint
Author: William A. Johnson, Holt N. Parker
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 448 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199793983
ISBN-10: 0199793980
Edition: Reprint
Author: William A. Johnson, Holt N. Parker
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 448 pages

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Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (ISBN-13: 9780199793983 and ISBN-10: 0199793980), written by authors William A. Johnson, Holt N. Parker, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.64.

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Recent advances in cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology are revolutionizing our understanding of literacy. However, this research has made only minimal inroads among classicists. In turn, historians of literacy continue to rely on outdated work by classicists (mostly from the 1960's and 1970's) and have little access to the current reexamination of the ancient evidence. This timely volume seeks to formulate interesting new ways of conceiving the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world, as text-oriented events embedded in particular socio-cultural contexts.

In the volume, selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines. The result will give readers new ways of thinking about specific elements of "literacy" in antiquity, such as the nature of personal libraries, or what it means to be a bookseller in antiquity; new constructionist questions, such as what constitutes reading communities and how they fashion themselves; new takes on the public sphere, such as how literacy intersects with commercialism, or with the use of public spaces, or with the construction of civic identity; new essentialist questions, such as what do "book" and "reading" signify in antiquity, why literate cultures develop, or why literate cultures matter.

Containing new work from today's outstanding scholars of literacy in antiquity, Ancient Literacies will be an indispensable collection for all students and scholars of reading cultures in the classical world.

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