Author : Jocelyn Penny Small
Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Wax Tablets of the Mind by : Jocelyn Penny Small
Download or read book Wax Tablets of the Mind written by Jocelyn Penny Small. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.