Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse /

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Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bakker, Egbert J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Homer.
Homere > Technique.
Homer > Criticism and interpretation.
Literatura grega clássica (crítica e interpretação)
Discourse analysis.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Odyssea (Homerus)
Ilias (Homerus)
Speech in literature.
Poetics.
Oral tradition.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Epic poetry, Greek.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
literary criticism.
Parole dans la litterature.
Tradition orale > Grece.
Poesie epique grecque > Histoire et critique.
Analyse des formules orales.
Discours litteraire.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Greece.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Gregory Nagy
  • pt. 1. Perspectives. 1. The Construction of Orality. 2. The Writing of Homer
  • pt. 2. Speech. 3. Consciousness and Cognition. 4. The Syntax of Movement. 5. Homeric Framings
  • pt. 3. Special Speech. 6. Rhythm and Rhetoric. 7. Epithets and Epic Epiphany. 8. The Grammar of Poetry.

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