Co-published with the Speech Communication Association, these thirty original essays explore the history of non-dramatic literature in performance from Homer to the present. Focusing on various historical perspectives, the essays examine the impact of orality on the written word and the translation of that impact into performance. Associate editors are Wallace A. Bacon, Eugene Bahn, Lee Hudson and Alethea S. Mattingly. Managing Editor is Jean Haskell Speer.
- ISBN10 0819131474
- ISBN13 9780819131478
- Publish Date 19 April 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 742
- Language English