| Nine Essays on Homer Contributor(s): Carlisle, Miriam (Editor), Levaniouk, Olga (Editor), Nagy, Gregory (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0847694240 ISBN-13: 9780847694242 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $62.37 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: The essays in this collections address questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the w |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Poetry |
| Dewey: 883.01 |
| LCCN: 99011159 |
| Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches-linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology-this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature. |