Residual Orality and Belated Textuality in Greek Literature and Culture

Tziovas, Dimitris

doi:10.1353/mgs.2010.0361

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“…Creative writers, in essence, emerge from communities of readers (Tziovas, 2014). Drawing from Pope (2005) and Deleuze (1995), the term "creative" encapsulates a multifaceted process influenced by both external stimuli and internal psychic-mental structures.…”

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The Contribution of Creative Writing to the Development Love for Reading in Children's Libraries: An Interdisciplinary Approach

MICHAILIDIS

2024

IJREHC

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This paper examines the significance of creative writing in cultivating a deeper, more meaningful connection between children and literary reading within the library setting. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, it views creative writing as an educational tool that serves to ignite the imagination of young readers and harness the expressive potential of language within reading groups hosted in libraries. The study begins with a concise historical overview of the formation of creative writing and proceeds to examine various approaches to the cognitive processes stimulated by creative writing techniques. It then proceeds to present illustrative applications of creative activities grounded in foundational texts, tailored for implementation in Children's Library settings. These activities are categorized into three levels based on the participants' preparedness for creative engagement. Furthermore, to underscore the pivotal role of creative writing in fostering a love for reading, the paper incorporates feedback from 18 Library Science students who participated in a reading group during the spring semester of 2019 at a Greek University. The group's thematic focus was on analyzing the structure of short stories through creative writing exercises. The students' perspectives, gathered through a brief questionnaire, provide valuable insights into the symbiotic relationship between creative writing and the educational mission of libraries.

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Section: The Production Of Creative Speech As a Cognitive Process: Cr...mentioning

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The Contribution of Creative Writing to the Development Love for Reading in Children's Libraries: An Interdisciplinary Approach

MICHAILIDIS

2024

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“…The latter is not absolutely "free" during the process of structuring meaning, as his role is significantly determined by the intratextual constraints of the text. Thus, he has a dual duty: to identify, on the one hand, the constraints that constitute the implied reader, and to be led, on the other hand, to the realization of the text (Tziovas 1987, p. 243 [52]). The actual reader could be considered "active" and at the same time "passive": "passive", because his activity is controlled by textual structures and "active", because despite the constraints, he is ultimately the one who produces meaning (Compagnon 2003, p. 234 [53]).…”

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Pictograms: A Visual Semiotic “Playground” for Children

Sidiropoulou,

Papailia

2023

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The new generations of gaze, modern children, are growing up in the context of a society dominated by the title "visual culture". Therefore, visual literacy must be present in the educational landscape both as an object of study and as a means of learning. Through training and acquiring skills in analyzing, understanding, and producing visual texts, children will become visually literate, that is, they will have developed basic visual literacy skills in order not just to look but to learn to see. In the context of the recognition of the educational and pedagogical potential of the wordless book, the proliferation of scientific articles is evident, pointing out its usefulness not only as a tool for supervisory and teaching material, but also the use of the genre as a tool for the development of visual literacy. In this paper we will focus on the works of Sonia Chaine and Adrien Pichelin, specifically in those that are retelling classic fairytales through the encoding of visual symbols. The first part of the paper examines the ways in which a sequence of encoding visual symbols can create an effective narrative and the second explores the "portrait" of the child-reader that is implied in the above books. From our results we conclude that the reader is considered as an active participant in the process of meaning-making. This means that the reader plays a crucial role in interpreting the signs and symbols presented in the visual texts, and that their understanding is shaped by the reader's qualifications, experiences, cultural background, and perspective. This approach emphasizes that visual meaning is not fixed but is created by the interactions between the visual text, the reader, and the context.

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“…The idea of an oral alternative nevertheless died hard, and exponents of various anti-establishment ideologies tried at various times to rescue it. Demoticism often seems to take orality as an ideal and to invest in it all the moral purity that its adherents attributed to the rural 'folk' (see especially Tziovas 1989). The absorption of song into literate poetry implied by the nineteenthcentury use of such terms as asma underwent a degree of reversal.…”

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Literacy as Symbolic Strategy in Greece: Methodological Considerations of Topic and Place

Herzfeld

1990

Byz. mod. Greek stud.

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Against reification: what is a context? This paper provides me with an opportunity to suggest why the study of orality and literacy/literality in modern Greece has some theoretical as well as purely descriptive or local significance. For social anthropology, comparison between societies and cultures is a central task. While the study of modern Greek culture displays a remarkably persistent level of methodological introversion, its singular characteristics are very germane to the comparativist perspective. In part, this is due to the peculiar political circumstances that make the ancient forebears of the Greeks so much a part of current debates about the status of the modern culture.

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Residual Orality and Belated Textuality in Greek Literature and Culture

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

The Contribution of Creative Writing to the Development Love for Reading in Children's Libraries: An Interdisciplinary Approach

The Contribution of Creative Writing to the Development Love for Reading in Children's Libraries: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Pictograms: A Visual Semiotic “Playground” for Children

Literacy as Symbolic Strategy in Greece: Methodological Considerations of Topic and Place

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