Denaturalizing Literacy
The Story Behind Before Literature
Existence Without Inscription
Myth and the Mythical, Epic and the Epical
Why Prelit Matters
But There Is Always a But ...
A Beginning with No Definitive Beginning
A Digression on the "Once Upon a Time ..." of Star Wars
Beginning In Medias Res
Ending Anti-In Medias Res-and Pro-Status Quo
"And This Happened ... And Then This ... And Then ..."
Epic Examples of Episodic Epics
[[Boxes] within Boxes] within Boxes
Flashbacks, Masala Style
Lists, Lists, and More Lists
In Defense of Clichés and the Formulaic (Yes, Really!)
Repeat, Recycle-and Repeat (& Recycle)
Whence the "Traditional"?
The Acoustic Landscape
Ancestors & Alienation
Alienation & Participation
The Agon of Audiences-But, Even More, of Actors
Blood and Guts
Violence + Veneration = A Polarized World
When Exteriority Is Not a Bad Thing
But, What of Art? What of Aesthetics?
Oral Embodiment
Superhuman Vessels
Is Anti-Psychological Necessarily Unreal?
Animating Abstract Knowledge
Information Classification: General
The Absence of Irony, the Pleasure of Parody
Is There an Oral Chronosense?
Do Intellectuals Suffer from Alphabetically Literate Elitism?
Why the Humanities Matter-to All of Us.