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Research by modern scholars among these people has resolved any doubt that long epics could be composed orally and has shed light on the methods of oral composition that must have been used by ancient poets such as Homer.
(But why would oral composition make a writer's prose more complex, rather than more simple? Again, Wershler-Henry does not address the question).
The style of the epic which consists of prose narrative mixed with verse speeches suggests oral composition.
Workshops will support primary classroom teachers to support students to understand how their oral composition skills connect to the writing process.
Theories of rhetorical invention of the 18th and 19th centuries seldom treated the exigencies of oral composition before live audiences or even involved an imaginative projection of oneself into a public situation.
His current projects include a treatment of various aspects of Greek and Indo-European word-formation, and a study of how the constraints of oral composition influenced the creation of the Homeric poetic language.
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The core genres of Mesopotamian literature were developed by the Sumerians apparently as oral compositions.
Although most poets now lived far from the pasture grounds of the tribal bards, and written texts had replaced oral compositions, the basic features of the art lived on.
As writing developed more and more precision during the 3rd millennium bce, more oral compositions seem to have been put into writing.
Most intellectual efforts went towards imitating classical scholarship, but some original works were created, along with now-lost oral compositions.
La Tène art gives witness to the aesthetic qualities of the Celts, and they greatly prized music and many forms of oral literary composition.
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