Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Vol. 9 (Mnemosyne, Supplements)

2011 Brill hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Contents: (1) 'The Audience Expects': Penelope and Odysseus by Adrian Kelly, (2) The Presentation of Song in Homer's Odyssey by Deborah Beck, (3) Comparative Perspectives on the Composition of the Homeric Simile by Jonathan Ready, (4) Composing Lines, Performing Acts: Clauses, Discourse Acts, and Melodic Units in a South Slavic Epic Song by Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer, (5) Works and Days As Performance by Ruth Scodel, (6) Empowering the Sacred: The Function of the Sanskrit Text in a Contemporary Exposition of the Bhagavatapurana by McComas Taylor, (7) Prompts for Participation in Early Philosophical Texts by James Henderson Collins II, (8) Performing an Academic Talk: Proclus on Hesiod's Works and Days by Patrizia Marzillo, (9) The Criticism-and the Practice-of Literacy in the Ancient Philosophical Tradition by Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, (10) Reading Books, Talking Culture: The Performance of Paideia in Imperial Greek Literature by Jeroen Lauwers, (11) Eumolpus Poeta at Work: Rehearsed Spontaneity in the Satyricon by Niall W. Slater.…