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Written Voices, Spoken Signs : Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020467
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Written Voices, Spoken SignsDDC classification:
  • 883/.01
LOC classification:
  • PA4037
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction (Ebert Bakker &amp -- 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.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction (Ebert Bakker &amp -- 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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