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Homer and the Oral Tradition
Author | : G. S. Kirk |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1976-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521213097 |
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In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk considers the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.
Homer and the Oral Tradition
Author | : Geoffrey Stephen Kirk |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:175029970 |
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Homer
Author | : Andrew Ford |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501734625 |
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Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and referring to other early epics as well, Ford deepens our understanding of what poetry was at a time before written texts, before a developed sense of authorship, and before the existence of institutionalized criticism. Placing what is known about Homer's art in the wider context of Homer's world, Ford traces the effects of the oral tradition upon the development of the epic and addresses such issues as the sources of the poet's inspiration and the generic constraints upon epic composition. After exploring Homer's poetic vocabulary and his fictional and mythical representations of the art of singing, Ford reconstructs an idea of poetry much different from that put forth by previous interpreters. Arguing that Homer grounds his project in religious rather than literary or historical terms, he concludes that archaic poetry claims to give a uniquely transparent and immediate rendering of the past. Homer: The Poetry of the Past will be stimulating and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the traditions of poetry, as well as for students and scholars in the fields of classics, literary theory and literary history, and intellectual history.
Homer s Traditional Art
Author | : John Miles Foley |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780271072418 |
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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 order to establish a context for their original performance and modern-day reception. In Homer's Traditional Art, Foley addresses three crucially interlocking areas that lead us to a fuller appreciation of the Homeric poems. He first explores the reality of Homer as their actual author, examining historical and comparative evidence to propose that "Homer" is a legendary and anthropomorphic figure rather than a real-life author. He next presents the poetic tradition as a specialized and highly resonant language bristling with idiomatic implication. Finally, he looks at Homer's overall artistic achievement, showing that it is best evaluated via a poetics aimed specifically at works that emerge from oral tradition. Along the way, Foley offers new perspectives on such topics as characterization and personal interaction in the epics, the nature of Penelope's heroism, the implications of feasting and lament, and the problematic ending of the Odyssey. His comparative references to the South Slavic oral epic open up new vistas on Homer's language, narrative patterning, and identity. Homer's Traditional Art represents a disentangling of the interwoven strands of orality, textuality, and verbal art. It shows how we can learn to appreciate how Homer's art succeeds not in spite of the oral tradition in which it was composed but rather through its unique agency.
Listening to Homer
Author | : Ruth Scodel |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472033744 |
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DIVA discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds /div
Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
Author | : Albert Bates Lord |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Epic poetry |
ISBN | : 0801497175 |
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Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions, Albert Bates Lord here concentrates on the epic singers and their art as manifested in texts or performance.
Improvisation Typology Culture and the New Orthodoxy
Author | : D. Gary Miller |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005893451 |
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Postoral Homer
Author | : Rainer Friedrich |
Publsiher | : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Oral tradition |
ISBN | : 3515120483 |
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"Milman Parry's comparative study of Homer and Southslavic oral song had demonstrated the existence of an oral tradition behind and within the Homeric Epic, thus establishing an indisputable link between Homer and oral poetry. Yet its exact nature has remained a moot point. For equally indisputable is the fact of the coexistence of oral and literate features within the Homeric Epic. Thus not behaving as either a straight oral song or as a straight literate text tout court, the Homeric Epic calls into question the prevailing Parryist axiom of the oral Homer. The link between Homer and oral poetry has thus become an open question again: it is, in fact, the New Homeric Question that turns on the roles of orality and literacy in the genesis of the Homeric Epic.To clarify it this book experiments with a third term: postorality. As a postoral poet, having initially been trained as an oral bard absorbing the Hellenic oral tradition, Homer would have acquired literacy in the course of his career as an oral singer. It enabled him to widen, deepen, and refine his epic art, thereby giving rise to an epic as complex and unique, in terms of structure, characterization, and intellectual substance, as the Iliad."--