Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind by John Miles Foley University of Illinois Press, 2012 From the recent review by Kristina Chew, Saint Peters University in Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Ancient Greek epics composed by oral poets and the hyperlinked networks of the Internet share something fundamental. According to the late John Miles Foley of the University of Missouri in his posthumously published book, Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind, both oral tradition and Internet technology involve navigating through linked networks of potentials (17) that, far more than the experience of reading the fixed text of a published hard copy book, replicate the actual thinking processes of the human mind. That is, oral tradition, exemplified in the Homeric poems and still carried on by, among others, Basque and Sardinian poets (33-35) who compete in oral poetry competitions, bears a striking resemblance to that most up-to-moment of technologies, the Internet with its seemingly infinite, interconnected panoply of web pages, wikis, social media sites, et alia. press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/54xcf5ha9780252037184.html
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