Homer in Performance : Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters /

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Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bachvarova, Mary R. (Contribuidor), Beck, Deborah (Contribuidor), Bonifazi, Anna (Contribuidor), Bundrick, Sheramy D. (Contribuidor), Christensen, Joel P. (Contribuidor), Gangloff, Anne (Contribuidor), Garcia Jr, Lorenzo F. (Contribuidor), Kelly, Adrian (Contribuidor), Levaniouk, Olga (Contribuidor), O'Maley, James (Contribuidor), Ready, Jonathan L. (Contribuidor), Ready, Jonathan (Editor ), Tsagalis, Christos C. (Contribuidor), Tsagalis, Christos (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Temas:
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Oral interpretation of poetry.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Performing arts > Appreciation > Greece.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Iota Adscript and the Transliteration of Proper Nouns
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Rhapsodes
  • Chapter One Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods
  • Chapter Two Reading Rhapsodes on Athenian Vases
  • Chapter Three Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Hellenistic Period
  • Chapter Four Rhapsodes and Rhapsodic Contests in the Imperial Period
  • Chapter Five Formed on the Festival Stage: Plot and Characterization in the Iliad as a Competitive Collaborative Process
  • Chapter Six Did Sappho and Homer Ever Meet? Comparative Perspectives on Homeric Singers
  • Part II Narrators and Characters
  • Chapter Seven Odysseus Polyonymous
  • Chapter Eight Embedded Focalization and Free Indirect Speech in Homer as Viewpoint Blending
  • Chapter Nine Speech Training and the Mastery of Context: Thoas the Aetolian and the Practice of Muthoi
  • Chapter Ten Diomedes as Audience and Speaker in the Iliad
  • Chapter E leven Hektor, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue
  • Chapter Twelve Performance, Oral Texts, and Entextualization in Homeric Epic
  • Chapter Thirteen Homer's Rivals? Internal Narrators in the Iliad
  • Works Cited
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Terms
  • Index of Passages

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