Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works students read in the course were passed down through an oral tradition, and Jenkins says the written word fails to capture the essence of the pieces...
...conservative Christian and "family-values" Republican, Largent has strong support in the First, home to Oral Roberts University. The district contains major McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell International facilities, and Largent is a staunch defender of the defense budget, even supporting a military exemption from budget cuts. He also sponsored the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act to give parents control over when and how their children are exposed to sex education and condom distribution in schools...
Scholars have understood for hundreds of years that the two great Homeric epics originated as oral poems in preliterate Greece. (No one really knows how the written texts came into being.) But only in the past 40 or so years have linguists and anthropologists come up with a plausible theory of how those poems must have been made. Homer--or the collection of bards given that name at some point in the murky past--did not wander around Greece with 12,109 lines of the Odyssey committed to memory. Instead, the Homeric repetitions so familiar to readers of English translations...
...whose introduction to the new Odyssey is marvelously informative. Fagles reworked and revised some passages more than 20 times. His labors now ended, Fagles pronounces himself "bereft" at leaving Homer's world. He believes, against considerable scholarly dissent, that Homer actually existed and shaped his epics from a long oral tradition. "It's awfully hard to prove," Fagles says, "but I'm an incurable romantic...
...will spend his fellowship this year at Harvard completing research focusing on the "Oral Literature in Africa...