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Eric A. Havelock. The Muse Learns to Write. Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1986. Pp. x + 144.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

J. Peter Denny*
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario

Abstract

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1987

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