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Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and Human Condition. By Jeffrey M. Shaw. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2014. xiv + 193 pp. $23.00 (paper).andReturning to Reality: Thomas Merton's Wisdom for a Technological World. By Phillip M. Thompson. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2012. xxii + 112 pp. $17.00 (paper).This year marks centenaiy of birth of famous Trappist monk, poet, and peace activist Thomas Merton. Often called most significant Catholic spiritual writer of twentieth century, Merton has acquired an increasing reputation as a wise and prescient commentator on many issues of contemporary life with gradual publication of his journals and letters beginning in early 1990s (a quarter-century after his untimely death in 1968, as stipulated by his literary estate). In anticipation of this Merton anniversary year a number of books have examined various aspects of Merton's life and work.Two of these focus on Merton's disparate writings on technology. Merton left no single comprehensive account of his philosophy of technology, but topic came up often in his letters and his extensive private journals. Jeffrey Shaw and Phillip Thompson each have skillfully woven disparate threads of Merton's philosophy of technology into a coherent fabric.Shaw discusses Merton alongside French Protestant philosopher and theologian Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), and pairing makes for a richer discussion than Thompson manages in his slimmer but also fine volume. Merton and Ellul never met and had no known correspondence, but Merton read Ellul enthusiastically and mentioned him several times in his journals.What excited Merton about Ellul's theory of technology was concept of technique, by which Ellul meant something beyond standard meaning of that word in English. In his most well-known book, La Technique (The Technological Society), Ellul defined technique as the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity. Put differently, technique is that inherent characteristic of technology that enforces efficiency and technological progress at expense of natural world and of other, arguably higher, humanistic concerns. The classic example of this is Henry Ford's replacement of craftsmanship with efficient but mind-numbing and spiritually empty assembly-line work.Shaw's book began as a doctoral dissertation, and it retains both advantages and disadvantages of that genre. The advantages are its comprehensiveness and clear organization, with nicely self-contained chapters dedicated to a comparison of two men's worldviews; their theology, sociology, and politics of technology; and relationship between their philosophies of technology and their literary work. …

True yankees: the South Seas and the discovery of American identity

With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Their South Seas voyages of commerce and discovery introduced the infant nation to the world and the world to what the Chinese, Turks, and others dubbed the new people. Drawing on private journals, letters, ships' logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, True Yankees traces America's earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers. Merchant Samuel Shaw spent a decade scouring the marts of China and India for goods that would captivate the imaginations of his countrymen. Mariner Amasa Delano toured much of the Pacific hunting seals. Explorer Edmund Fanning circumnavigated the globe, touching at various Pacific and Indian Ocean ports of call. In 1829, twenty-year-old Harriett Low reluctantly accompanied her merchant uncle and ailing aunt to Macao, where she recorded trenchant observations of expatriate life. And sea captain Robert Bennet Forbes' last sojourn in Canton coincided with the eruption of the First Opium War. How did these bold voyagers approach and do business with the people in the region, whose physical appearance, practices, and culture seemed so strange? And how did native men and women - not to mention the European traders who were in direct competition with the Americans - regard these upstarts who had fought off British rule? The accounts of these adventurous travelers reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby creating a genuinely brash national character - the true Yankee. Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale.

The Real and Its Outliers (review)

Reviewed by: The Real and Its Outliers Carol Martin (bio) Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama. By Jenn Stephenson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013; pp. 212. Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater. By Jacqueline O’Connor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013; pp. 226. Testimonial Plays. Edited by Alison Forsyth. London: Bloomsbury, 2014; pp. 330. Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory, 1990–2010. By Liz Tomlin. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013; pp. 226. In preparation for reading Jenn Stephenson’s Performing Autobiography, I decided to engage in high-risk, twenty-first-century ways of knowing by asking my much-maligned friend Siri: “What is autobiography?” Siri responded with a yellowing image of a cover of the first English edition of Benjamin Franklin’s 1793 autobiography The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. “originally written by Himself,” followed by an entry from her equally libeled buddy Wikipedia (as of 30 September 2014): “An autobiography is a written account of the life of a person written by that person.”1 Wikipedia subheadings for “Autobiography” include “Origin of the Term,” “Autobiography through the Ages,” “Nature of Autobiography,” and “Fictional Autobiography.” Under “Origin of the Term,” there are some factoids that may be partly or entirely wrong, but are nevertheless interesting. The word autobiography, Wikipedia says, was first used derogatorily as a “hybrid [End Page 135] term” (auto/biography?) in a 1797 issue of the English periodical Monthly Review. In 1809, the Romantic poet Robert Southey used the term in its present sense: writing based on the writer’s memory and thus closely related to memoir. The Wikipedia entry also includes mention of autobiography being related to apologia, in the sense of self-justification. Of course, St. Augustine’s Confessions makes an appearance, as does Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s similarly titled Confession. Other luminary autobiographers mentioned in the Wikipedia entry via Siri include Charles Dickens, Henry Adams, John Stuart Mill, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and finally P. T. Barnum, a man after my own heart. Today, life narratives and narratives taken from life are proliferating at an unprecedented pace. They help candidates get elected, feature on daytime television shows, are used in self-help groups and group therapy, are often employed as an element of actor training, and appear as a literary form. Digital technology is partly responsible both for the proliferation of new forms of autobiography and for the blurring of fiction and nonfiction, as print-based, private journals and diaries yield to virtual versions featuring prose and pictures on a variety of open data platforms, such as Twitter, blog sites, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and, yes, Wikipedia. Social media provide the opportunity for reimaging, rewriting, and reimagining in the form of mash-ups, wikis, folksonomies, and tag clouds. Former definitions of autobiography, as well as documentary, do not account for what is going on now. The movement away from theatre about real events as a stable enactment of offstage worlds has generated new structures and styles, especially when media are employed. The lens of the authors is as much a part of the subject of the performance as the real-world stories that are told. This postmodernist turn toward complex, multivalent, and contradictory ways of seeing informs how we experience both reality and theatre and can include a critique of postmodernism itself. Some theatre of the real is connected, at least ideologically, to the historical avant-garde, while other takes the form of orthodox contemporary realism. The articulation of a defined and knowable truth in theatre of the real has given way to works like those of Rabih Mroué, which stage a radical uncertainty about understanding and the actual occurrence of events. The only consensus about the real is that the current fascination with it is in the context of abiding simulation and the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction in live performance. Even as the field has shifted from assertions of stable and knowable truth, some artists and theorists continue to make claims for experiential testimony. There is a move to sort theatre of the real into a precise nomenclature of kind and type and to parse its appearance into historical...

Private Journals versus Public Blogs

This article isolates and observes the impact of peer readership on low-stakes reflective writing assignments in two large Introduction to Sociology classes. Through a comparative content analysis of over 2,000 private reflective journal entries and semipublic reflective blog posts, I find that both practices produce distinct forms of reflection. I argue that these differences can be understood in terms of the risks that students take in their writing. Journals, which do not incorporate peer readership, appear to compel students to take more personal risks and engage in emotional labor to process assigned materials. Blogs, which do incorporate peer readership, enable students to take more intellectual risks and engage in logical mental endeavors. The results suggest that instructors should be cognizant of the variety of risks their assignments are likely to compel students to make as they determine how best to engage students in reflection on sociological materials and ideas.

Private Lives, Public Histories: The Diary in Twentieth-Century Britain

AbstractThis article examines the growth of interest in diary keeping in twentieth-century Britain. It explores how diary keeping by private citizens was encouraged in the first part of the century by mass-circulation newspapers, diary manufacturers, diary anthologists like Arthur Ponsonby, and the social research organization Mass Observation in response to changing notions of the self, privacy, and daily life. It discusses the ways in which, in the context of a growing interest in public archives, these private diaries have more recently been imagined as compelling forms of historical evidence, as well as some of the problems of organization and interpretation that these kinds of texts present. I argue that the inherently opaque and incomplete nature of private diaries means that they can add nuance to our understanding of the recent past and offer insight into the randomness and singularity of everyday experience as it is being lived.

Seeing Mission Work through a Gendered Lens

Nellie Arnott, who served as a Congregational mission teacher in the highlands of Angola from 1905–1912, left a rich archival record of her personal experiences, including private diaries and publications for women’s mission magazines. Her writings trace her evolving attitude toward gender roles for missionaries and for Umbundu women whom she taught. Arnott provides a highly personalized and feminized glimpse into a changing central Angola, as Portuguese authority extended into the region. As Arnott left Angola in 1912, her goal was to establish a girls’ boarding school there, but, while home on furlough, she married her long-time fiancé and did not return to Africa. Her candid personal writings allow a window into the development of her own social agency and a glimpse into the lives of Umbundu women (and men) as they negotiated evolving gender roles within an environment shaped by Portuguese political control as well as Congregational mission work.

Dilemmas and Delusions Bernard Shaw and Health

Beguiling a Victorian public obsessed with the pursuit of fitness, the International Health Exhibition opened in South Kensington in May 1884. Its expressed intent, to educate the public on a broad range of wellness topics, was greatly overshadowed by its dazzling display of proprietary medical commodities, salutary appliances, and faddish cures. While there were legitimate exhibits that dealt sincerely with issues of sanitation, hygiene, food, drink, and even child care, the event illuminated the extent to which personal and systemic therapeutic remedy and indeed health itself had become a lucrative industry. Less than three weeks before he joined the Fabian Society, the fledgling novelist Bernard Shaw visited one of the exhibition’s prominent attractions, Francis Galton’s Anthropometric Laboratory, to be quantified and measured. Chart 3655, created on 16 August 1884, contains the following collected data:

A Very Private Diary – A Nurse in Wartime Morris Mary (Edited by Carol Acton) A Very Private Diary – A Nurse in Wartime 300pp £14.99 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 978 0 2978 7155 2 0297871552

A Very Private Diary – A Nurse in Wartime Morris Mary (Edited by Carol Acton) A Very Private Diary – A Nurse in Wartime 300pp £14.99 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 978 0 2978 7155 2 0297871552

In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen (review)

Reviewed by: In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen Melanie Ried (bio) Mary McDonald-Rissanen. In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014. 292 pp. ISBN 978-0773543898, $34.95. In this well-researched book, Mary McDonald-Rissanen offers an interdisciplinary study of nineteenth and early twentieth century Prince Edward Island women’s “journals intime.” She performs a close reading of the eighteen women’s diaries she has identified “buried in archives”—all but one handwritten [End Page 1157] manuscripts—and she draws on a broad array of critics and theorists of culture, feminism, and travel writing, including Nancy Armstrong, Philippe Lejeune, and Mary Louise Pratt, in analyzing the thematic issues and the writing practices that emerge. McDonald-Rissanen argues that through private writing, the women were able to document and to reflect on their lives, discursively constructing evolving selves that negotiated the parameters of identity created by the material conditions and the ideologies of the time period and the location where each lived and wrote. Issues of sexuality, class, and nationality are revealed and explored through this gendered reading of the journals and the specific cultural contexts in which they were produced. The diaries are categorized by their setting—rural, urban, or travel—and they transverse key historical moments in Canadian and Western history, from the development of the British colony on PEI to Canadian independence, from the opening of the teaching profession to women to twentieth-century modernity. In her first chapter, McDonald-Rissanen establishes both her overall methodology and her personal connection to one of the journals, which inspired her research. Although most of the chapters focus on individual diarists, McDonald-Rissanen’s frequent cross-references and her liberal use of thematic sub-headings create cross-generational conversations amongst the women. That conversation is expanded to include us, McDonald-Rissanen’s fellow scholars, through her occasional personal anecdotes and her analysis of contemporary reading practices of historical life writing. The first chapter opens by acknowledging well-known PEI author Lucy Maud Montgomery, whose private journals were posthumously published in five volumes. Montgomery is again discussed in the second chapter, but only rarely referenced thereafter. Her legacy is paradoxical: a talented writer who transcended gender barriers in publishing her writing, but whose shadow has eclipsed the “more humble and cryptic texts of ordinary women whose diaries have survived by luck and the kindness of families who donated them to public archives” (51). The second chapter examines the representations of women in local nineteenth and early twentieth century newspapers, advertisements, songs, and folk stories—representations the “ordinary women” diarists would have seen and heard throughout their lives. McDonald-Rissanen also considers history texts and contemporary statistical analysis. Her findings are not surprising: women were almost entirely left out of historical records and accounts, and commercial print media idealized domesticity and motherhood while problematizing the female body through a “preoccupation with women’s health” (47). Examining “ordinary women[’s]” life writing to identify how they constructed themselves as physical and intellectual subjects thus becomes crucial to better understanding social history and the “subtle politics [End Page 1158] of cultural selection,” as McDonald-Rissanen applies Ian McKay’s terminology (219). Chapters three through five each primarily focus on an individual rural diarist: Emma Chadwick Stretch, writing between 1856–60; Amy Darby Tanton Andrew, 1910–1915; and Lucy Bardon Palmer Haslam, 1884–1943. Stretch’s diary began as an account ledger while she and her family lived in England, and she resumed writing in it three years after emigrating, incorporating brief accounts of daily farm life into records of purchases and trades; in this way Stretch writes herself into a new identity as a pioneer woman. Andrew also inscribes a shift in her identity during the years her diary spans, from a single woman living with her family to a married woman starting her own family and managing her own house and farm. This shift manifests over time, the demands of her new role and her insecurities indicated by cryptic entries...

The Impact of ‘Biblical Orientalism’ in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

‘Biblical Orientalism’ can be defined as a phenomenon based on the combination of a selective use of religion and a simplifying way to approach its natural habitat: the ‘Holy Land’. Between the 1830s and the beginning of the 20th century this attitude triggered a flood of mainly British books, private diaries and maps. Over time this enormous production, accompanied by a wide range of phenomena such as evangelical tourism, did instill the idea of a ‘meta-Palestine’, an imaginary place devoid of any history except that of Biblical magnificence. This has had various relevant consequences. The present article aims to deconstruct this perception by observing the process through which a local complex reality has been simplified and denied in its continuity.

Fascist voices: an intimate history of Mussolini's Italy

Christopher Duggan's new history of fascist Italy explores how the movement became embodied in the person of Benito Mussolini who occupied for many an almost divine status and gave millions of men and women a sense of pride and hope, offering the prospect of national regeneration after decades of disappointment. A work of exceptional authority and originality, Fascist Voices makes use of rarely examined sources - letters and private diaries, newspaper reports and secret police files - to uncover how ordinary people experienced fascism on a daily basis and how its ideology influenced their beliefs, values, language and lifestyle. Tracing fascism from its conception to its legacy, Christopher Duggan unpicks why the regime enjoyed so much support among the majority of the Italian population. He examines the extraordinary personal relationships that millions of Italians had with Mussolini, explores the religious dimensions of totalitarianism, and discusses why the 'cult of the Duce' still resonates in contemporary Italy. Fascist Voices is a fresh and disturbing look at a country in thrall to a charismatic dictator.

Dorothy Wordsworth, Writer: The Middle Years

Previous articleNext article No AccessDorothy Wordsworth, Writer: The Middle YearsPamela WoofPamela Woof Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Wordsworth Circle Volume 45, Number 1Winter 2014 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/TWC24044346 Views: 28Total views on this site © 2014 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor: The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum. Ed. by J. H. BOWMAN.

A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor: The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum. Ed. by J. H. BOWMAN.

From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Novel and the Arabic Press from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892

Late 19th-century Beirut and Cairo were capitals of Arabic literary production and press activity. A period, oft deemed a nahḍa, that witnessed the advent of the novel form or riwāya in Arabic, this was also the moment of intensified French and British imperial involvement in the region, and the concomitant industrialization of Beirut's silk and Egypt's cotton markets. This article argues that, through the novels published in and promoted through the region's burgeoning private journals and newspapers, editors and novelists revived the literary trope of the garden of knowledge as a spatial metaphor for the Arabic reading public. While the 1870s in Beirut began as a hopeful decade—the civil war of 1860 buried in the fortunes being made off Mt Lebanon's mulberry orchards—by 1890s Cairo these Edenic hopes were replaced by a sense of melancholy in the face of rampant speculation, accumulating in the gardens of Ezbekiyya. Reading two novels, Salīm al-Bustānī's 1870 al-Huyām fī-jinān al-Shām and Jurjī Zaydān's 1892 Asīr al-mutamahdī, against the literary and press activities of the Bustānī family's al-Jinān, Zaydān's al-Hilāl, Khalīl al-Khūrī's Hadīqat al-akhbār, Yūsuf al-Shalfūn's Al-Zahrah, Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī's Miṣbāḥ al-Sharq, and Fāris Nimr and Yaʿqūb Ṣarrūf's al-Muqtaṭaf, this article offers a literary history of speculation and capital for late 19th-century Arabic.

On Men and Bears: a Forgotten Migration in Nineteenth-Century Italy

This article centres on a unique type of migration: the seasonal travels of animal-trainers, mainly orsanti (bear-trainers), from the Italian Apennine region to the rest of Europe in the mid nineteenth century. These migrants set out from the walled mountain towns of Bedonia and Compiano and from surrounding villages in the province of Parma, at the intersection of Liguria, Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. They roamed Italy and Europe, reaching as far as Turkey, Russia and Scandinavia, with their carts and their animals: a strange company of men, boys, bears, camels and monkeys. The article is based on material recently acquired by the Archivio Ligure della Scrittura Popolare of Genoa (henceforth ALSP) and the Museo degli Orsanti in Compiano, Parma (henceforth Compiano Museum). 1 Primary materials from these collections – personal documents, private journals, objects and yellowed pictures – have been tackled by borrowing from an unusual body of criticism that extends from the mythological implications of bears to visual semiotics and art history. This interdisciplinary synergy responds to the call by Felix Driver and Bill Schwarz for a widening of the circle of historical production – ‘breaking down the barriers between historians, and ... encouraging greater communication between different fields of historical practice’. 2 Such a wider outlook is especially necessary when dealing with marginal subjects for whom sources are scarce. In my research I followed the orsanti back to their hometowns, tracking the faded traces of bears and men who travelled a narrow path at the periphery of society and historiography. 3 These animal-trainers, usually travelling in small groups but also sometimes alone or with a larger performing company, were part of a large movement of people that for centuries animated the entire European continent. The lower classes had hardly been immobile. Waves of local, circular, chain and career migrations had corrugated the European landscape since the 1600s, belonging to a long history of poverty and charity. 4 For the peasant classes, as Leslie Moch notes in her Moving Europeans, ‘stability was a privilege’. 5 Various migrant groups played a part in the developing European economy. Teams of seasonal workers were hired to reclaim and fertilize potential agricultural land, as in the unhealthy swamps of the Tuscan Maremma. In winter men from the poor mountain villages of the

Tabloid Journalist as P.O.W.

In 1941 Australian tabloid journalist Dorothy Gordon Jenner was caught up in the Japanese siege of Hong Kong and was incarcerated in the Stanley Internment Camp. During her internment Jenner kept a clandestine record of daily life written in pencil on Bronco brand toilet paper and kept hidden in the heels of her shoes. To date her fragmented diary and notes have defied analysis. This paper provides a reading of Jenner's personal wartime testimonio through the frame of tabloid journalism to expose how the tabloid genre—Jenner's stock-in-trade as a journalist before the war—became the framework for her personal testimony during World War II. By interpreting Jenner's private diary and notes as testimonio journalism this paper exposes the flow of the tabloid vernacular style of journalism between private and public discourses.

Kłopot z istnieniem Henryka Elzenberga a tradycja polskiej intymistyki modernistycznej (Brzozowski, Koniński, Kamieńska)

Summary This article tries to position Henryk Elzenberg’s Problem of Existence within the tradition of Polish modernist private diary writing. Elzenberg’s diary and occasional writings is in many ways exceptional and yet it has many parallels and links with the autobiographical works of Stanisław Brzozowski, Karol Ludwik Koniński and Anna Kamieńska. It is even possible to claim that all those texts constitute a distinct modernist subgenre, defined by its form and tone used to address issues ranging from religion and rationality to the possibility of constructing a new system of thought or finding a vocabulary capable of expressing its philosophical argument.

Disorderly Debates: Noise and Gesture in the 17th‐Century House of Commons

This article explores the atmosphere and behaviour of the house of commons during the 17th century, and endeavours to recover evidence about noise and gesture, decorum and disorder. Such evidence is rarely recorded and is difficult to interpret, but it is, nevertheless, possible to demonstrate that the House was often much less orderly and polite than contemporaries would have liked to admit, and than historians have often suggested. This evidence is largely absent from the official Commons' journals as well as from most private diaries, but it is occasionally recorded in contemporary news reports, and more obviously in the diary of Thomas Burton, and it highlights the numerous occasions on which proceedings fell into silence or descended into noisy uproar, as well as the occasions when interventions were made with gestures rather than words. At times, this aural and visual culture involved humour and harmless fun, but at others, it reveals personal tensions and political animosities that might otherwise not be apparent from recorded speeches. By drawing attention to such evidence and teasing out its meaning, this piece argues that historians have too often succumbed to the tendency to accentuate consensus and downplay conflict in 17th‐century parliaments.

‘The First that Ever Burst, etc.’: William Bateson in the Steppe, 1886–1887

Evidence from ‘official’ sources and from popular travel literature has long dominated our scholarship on the Great Game in Central Asia. Unsurprisingly, then, our vision of British Orientalism in this period has been based predominantly on the perspective of military and ‘professional’ sources. In this paper, I will discuss a source which falls into a different but no less crucial genre: the private letters and diary of the naturalist William Bateson (1861–1926), who travelled in the Kazakh steppe from the spring of 1886 to the autumn of 1887. Where popular travel accounts were often written with the adventure-hungry reader in mind, Bateson's writings are distinctly short on swashbuckling and danger. What we have instead is the unpretentious (and often wonderfully comic) perspective of a young, educated Englishmen with no pretences of literary or military fame: a ‘player’ with hardly any sense of his own role in the ‘Game’.

As fontes orais e sua relevância nos estudos linguístico-historiográficos

No que se refere às fontes historiográficas, sabe-se que, em princípio, as de natureza documental são de grande utilidade para esclarecimento e interpretação dos fatos, dada a presunção de confiabilidade de que desfrutam como documento histórico. Hoje, contudo, cresce significativamente a relevância das fontes informais, tais como as cartas, os diários, os bilhetes familiares e outras dessa natureza, assim como as fontes orais, cuja importância como documento histórico deve ser reavaliada. Este texto trata em especial da fontes historiográficas orais no campo da Historiografia da Linguística, bem como de sua utilização em projetos de pesquisa contemporâneos que se dedicam ao estudo e análise do percurso do saber linguístico no Brasil.