Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity

Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this volume, the author argues that literacy is a complex combination of various skills, not just the ability to read and write: the technology of writing, the encoding and decoding of text symbols, the interpretation of meaning, the retrieval and display systems which organize how meaning is stored and memory. The book explores the relationship between literacy, orality and memory in classical antiquity, not only from the point of view of antiquity, but also from that of modern cognitive psychology. It examines the contemporary as well as the ancient debate about how the writing tools we possess interact and affect the product, why they should do so and how the tasks required of memory change and develop with literacy's increasing output and evoking technologies.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138986985
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 153.120938
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 396
Weight: 725g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 21mm