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In all human societies we find a literature. Often it is oral, but in Europe it has for several centuries also had a written equivalent. Whereas oral literature, as we have seen, abounds in mnemonic devices, the written medium relies more heavily on an appeal to the eye and the mind.
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© 1989 Loreto Todd
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Todd, L. (1989). Drama. In: The Language of Irish Literature. The Language of Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19989-1_5
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