Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Ital... - 9781472474902

Taylor & Francis

Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and manuscript or print on the other hand, could play interdependent or complementary roles in the creation and circulation of texts. The book demonstrates the permeability of the oral-written borderline, and the consequent hybridity of early modern Italian culture. > Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and manuscript or print on the other hand, could have interdependent or complementary roles to play in the creation and circulation of texts. The first part of the book centres on performances, ranging from realizations of written texts to improvisations or semi-improvisations that might draw on written sources and might later be committed to paper.