Nayar Sheila J. - Before Literature The Nature Of Narrative Without The Written Word - Paperback VP RECORDS Barcode: 9780785844143

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Nayar Sheila J. - Before Literature The Nature Of Narrative Without The Written Word - Paperback VP RECORDS Barcode: 9780785844143Binding: Paperback Description: Before Literature examines storytelling that whether due to historical technological or socio economic circumstance is neither shaped nor influenced by alphabetic literacy. How does a story unfold when carried solely in memory when it cannot be written down or externally stored? What structural and stylistic pressures are imposed when it must travel through space and time exclusively by word of mouth? In Before