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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Struggle Between Oral and Script Cultures and Its Effect on Narrative Development (Communications, Typography; Britain, France)

Abstract

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Communications historians have in the last several decades begun to trace the outline of a great cultural shift which began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet and accelerated with the invention of print, and which saw man proceed from conceiving of the world primarily in oral terms to conceiving of it in terms of sight.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Comparative and World Literature
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2014

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Vande Berg, Michael James

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Identifier
(UMI)AAI8502329
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71468

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Vande Berg, Michael James. The Struggle Between Oral and Script Cultures and Its Effect on Narrative Development (Communications, Typography; Britain, France). Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/71468