Written Voices, Spoken Signs : Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia Series ; v.1 .
- Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction (Ebert Bakker & -- Ahuvia Kahane) -- 1. Storytelling in the Future: Truth, Time, and Tense in Homeric Epic (Egbert Bakker) -- 2. Writing the Emperor's Clothes On: Literacy and the Production of Facts (Franz H. Bäuml) -- 3. Traditional Signs and Homeric Art (John Miles Foley) -- 4. The Inland Ship: Problems in the Performance and Reception of Homeric Epic (Andrew Ford) -- 5. Hexameter Progression and the Homeric Hero's Solitary State (Ahuvia Kahane) -- 6. Similes and Performance (Richard P. Martin) -- 7. Ellipsis in Homer (Gregory Nagy) -- 8. Types of Orality in Text (Wulf Oesterreicher) -- 9. The Medial Approach: A Paradigm Shift in the Philologies? (Ursula Schaefer) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine innovative essays in this volume--by leading scholars of Homer, oral poetics, and epic--focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry.
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Homer-Criticism and interpretation-Congresses. Epic poetry-History and criticism-Theory, etc.-Congresses. Comparative literature-Greek and Medieval-Congresses. Comparative literature-Medieval and Greek-Congresses. Mythology, Greek, in literature-Congresses. Written communication-Greece-Congresses. Oral interpretation of poetry-Congresses. Oral-formulaic analysis-Congresses. Oral tradition-Greece-Congresses. Oral tradition-Europe-Congresses.