How to read a reading of a written poem

dc.contributor.author	Middleton, Peter	eng
dc.date.issued	2005-03	eng
dc.description	Poetry readings have become a standard element in the practice of poetry in the English-speaking world over the past fifty years, yet their significance as anything more than entertainment remains little understood.1 Literary studies has lagged behind another field that has made significant steps in the study of poetry performance--oral poetics. My title alludes to John Miles Foley's recent textbook (2002) on the study of oral poetry, which offers both a comprehensive account of different theories of oral poetry and an extended introduction to his own contribution to the study of the units of composition. Foley's work, like that of other ethnographers of oral poetry, has important implications for the study of the relation between any written poetry and its performance, even among the most literate, print-based cultures.	eng
dc.description	Issue title: Performance Literature I.	eng
dc.format.extent	28 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 20/1 (2005): 7-34.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65009
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	How to read a reading of a written poem	eng
dc.type	Article	eng