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Homer's cosmic fabrication : choice and design in the Iliad /
"Although scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem," since very near the time of its composition the great epic has circulated as a text stabilized in writing. Thus whether or not it is in some sense "oral poetry," the Iliad undoubtedly has features that rend...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | American classical studies ;
no. 52. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Although scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem," since very near the time of its composition the great epic has circulated as a text stabilized in writing. Thus whether or not it is in some sense "oral poetry," the Iliad undoubtedly has features that render it quite satisfactory to readers and reading. But the question of what these features might be has been difficult for modern Homeric scholarship even to frame, much less address, within the research paradigm of "oral poetics."" "In Homer's Cosmic Fabrication Bruce Heiden delineates a new approach aimed at evaluating what the Iliad furnishes to readers that makes it comprehensible and engaging. His program conceptualizes the act of reading as a flexible repertoire of cognitive functions that a reader might deploy in collaboration with the poem's signs. By positing certain functions hypothetically and applying them to the poem, Heiden's experiments uncover the kind and degree of suitable "reading material" the poem provides."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199712427 0199712425 9780199867066 0199867062 9781281825964 1281825964 9786611825966 6611825967 |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |