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Written voices, spoken signs : tradition, performance, and the epic text /

The nine essays in this volume focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry, inviting us to rethink some key concepts for an understanding of traditional epic poetry. Egbert Bakker examines the epic performer's use of time and tense in recounting a past that is alive. Tackling the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bakker, Egbert J., Kahane, Ahuvia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Colección:Center for Hellenic Studies colloquia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Storytelling in the future: truth, time, and tense in Homeric epic / Egbert Bakker
  • Writing the emperor's clothes on: literacy and the production of facts / Franz H. Bäuml
  • Traditional signs and Homeric art / John Miles Foley
  • The inland ship: problems in the performance and reception of Homeric epic / Andrew Ford
  • Hexameter progression and the Homeric hero's solitary state / Ahuvia Kahane
  • Similes and performance / Richard P. Martin
  • Ellipsis in Homer / Gregory Nagy
  • Types of orality in text / Wulf Oesterreicher
  • The medial approach: a paradigm shift in the philologies? / Ursula Schaefer.