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Anyone have a good sense of specific literary firms associated with pre-print writing technologies? Like parchment vs vellum vs paper through Middle Ages? As in oral traditions had metered verse as primary form, for ease of memorization. Print had prose.
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Not sure about the specific question, but Walter Ong (Orality and Literacy) and Jack Goody (Literacy in Traditional Societies) are probably good places to look.
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