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Thompson, David W., Ed.; And Others – 1983
The 33 essays that make up this volume examine the history of literature in performance from five perspectives: (1) language, (2) popular culture, (3) teaching, (4) theory, and (5) entertainment. The essays in the first section explore the basic perspective of oral performance as a factor in the development of languages themselves and their…
Descriptors: Authors, Classical Literature, Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics