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Homeric voices : discourse, memory, gender /
"Although there has been considerable interest over time in the composition of narrative sections of the Homeric epics - type-scenes and similes, in particular - there have been very few studies, from a compositional point of view, of the substantial speeches and exchanges of speech that Homer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Although there has been considerable interest over time in the composition of narrative sections of the Homeric epics - type-scenes and similes, in particular - there have been very few studies, from a compositional point of view, of the substantial speeches and exchanges of speech that Homer depicts in his songs. Homeric Voices is an attempt to redress the balance. Drawing on research in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and cognitive psychology, Elizabeth Minchin considers the words that Homer attributes to his characters from two perspectives, as cognitive and as social phenomena."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-302) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0191535613 9781429491235 142949123X 9780191535611 1281164917 9781281164919 9780191707070 0191707074 9786611164911 661116491X |