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Homer in Performance : Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters.

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ready, Jonathan
Otros Autores: Tsagalis, Christos
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Colección:Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; A Note on Iota Adscript and the Transliteration of Proper Nouns; Acknowledgments; Introduction (Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis); Part I. Rhapsodes; Chapter 1. Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Christos C. Tsagalis); Chapter 2. Reading Rhapsodes on Athenian Vases (Sheramy D. Bundrick); Chapter 3. Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Hellenistic Period (Christos C. Tsagalis); Chapter 4. Rhapsodes and Rhapsodic Contests in the Imperial Period (Anne Gangloff).
  • Chapter 5. Formed on the Festival Stage: Plot and Characterization in the Iliad as a Competitive Collaborative Process (Mary R. Bachvarova)Chapter 6. Did Sappho and Homer Ever Meet? Comparative Perspectives on Homeric Singers (Olga Levaniouk); Part II. Narrators and Characters; Chapter 7. Odysseus Polyonymous (Deborah Beck); Chapter 8. Embedded Focalization and Free Indirect Speech in Homer as Viewpoint Blending (Anna Bonifazi); Chapter 9. Speech Training and the Mastery of Context: Thoas the Aetolian and the Practice of Muthoi (Joel P. Christensen).
  • Chapter 10. Diomedes as Audience and Speaker in the Iliad (James O'Maley)Chapter 11. Hektor, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue (Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr.); Chapter 12. Performance, Oral Texts, and Entextualization in Homeric Epic (Jonathan L. Ready); Chapter 13. Homer's Rivals? Internal Narrators in the Iliad (Adrian Kelly); Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index of Terms; Index of Passages.