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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.bmyfgx
- isbn: 9781783741021
- eisbn: 9782821876163
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India oral tradition folklore storytelling Inde art de conter folklore tradition orale Folklore Literature (General) LIT008020 DSBSujets proches
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Richard Widdess, « 8. Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.bmyfgx
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We are accustomed to thinking of texts as existing either in written form, read, silently or aloud, and transmitted by copying and re-copying; or else in memorised form, rendered and in some sense re-created through performance, and transmitted orally. In both cases we tend to assume that the meaning of a text resides primarily in the words themselves, and is understood by the reader or listener through the act of reading or listening. But there are traditions of performance in South Asia whe...