Homer's traditional art.
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in orde...
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Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
1999
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Pronunciation Key
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Homer's Sign-Language
- 1 Homeric Signs and Traditional Referentiality
- Part II: Homeric and South Slavic Epic
- 2 Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: The Analogy and the Singers
- 3 Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: Traditional Register
- 4 Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: Traditional Referentiality
- Part III: Reading Homer's Signs
- 5 Story-Pattern as Sêma: The Odyssey as a Return Song
- 6 Typical Scenes of Feast and Lament
- 7 Word, Idiom, Speech-Act: The Traditional Phrase as Sêma
- Part IV: Homeric Signs and Odyssey 23
- 8 Rereading Odyssey 23
- Afterword: "Deor" and Anglo-Saxon Sêmata
- Appendix I: Feasting in Homer
- Appendix II: "Deor"
- Notes
- Master Bibliography
- Index
- Index Locorum