STUDIES IN LITERATURE

Studies in Literature



Studies in Literature

Introduction

The issue that recurred developmentally was that the traditional view of a historical development from oralcy to literacy in the formation of culture; the cultural memory was simplistic and obscured the actual complexity of the operations. Since, ancient times, humans saved to your memory those stories worthy of remembrance and given to other members of his tribe (Havelock, 1986). Since each human group had a speaker, a reporter of past events, people using of the spoken and gestural communication have transmitted customs, knowledge and beliefs of their societies, collecting multiple circumstances and details of social life, religious, economic and political life of their peoples.

This oral tradition arose spontaneously in every culture, as one of the most important needs of human beings to satisfy their curiosity about all those phenomena that surround him. Oral literature is always an effective vehicle for affirming the identity because it provides social and cultural cohesion. Any, form of literature carries a style, a very special stamp in their practice and the characteristics of art of story-telling have been the huge variety of styles, which corresponded to needs of each culture and each narrator in its historical moment.

Discussion

The validity of oral tradition may be due to its popular and egalitarian nature, which requires no previous training, or education for their expression. In fact, this system does not differentiate or gaps: just run a basic level of language itself, to enter the world of the spoken, to tell and share knowledge and experiences in public and private spheres (Brooks, 2006). A high percentage of human knowledge and information moves through verbal channels.

In traditional communities (rural, rural, indigenous or minority), orality is a substitute for formal writing, and preserves in this way, the details of daily life, traditions and customs, as well as thorough and elaborate account of minimal stories, and countless tiny tiles of a gigantic mosaic. Although, slowly transformed it adapted to new realities-the world views of perpetuate century's stories. The legends explaining the origin of each natural element and the meaning of each symbol magic cure for all ills of body and soul, recipes leverage the best of local products, and solutions to innumerable problems and daily chores (Erne, 2003). Also, transmit songs, sayings and proverbs that reflect the spirit of the people, their wisdom, their idiosyncrasies and their way of understanding the world and act on it.

Homer

The Homeric poems have repeatedly offered intriguing suggestions to speculate on the passage from orality to literacy and the culture of the social group characterizing both the former and the latter form of society. It is not by chance that Parry's studies often quoted also in the work of the above mentioned anthropologists who, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century, have investigated the idea of 'primitive' or 'civilized' society using the ideas of oralcy and literacy as a distinguishing element. According to these seminal studies, in oral societies the production of knowledge and the dynamics of remembering have paramount ...