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 | | Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy ISBN-10: 9780521551359 ISBN-10: 0-521-55135-8 ISBN-13: 9780521551359 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-55135-9 Hardcover 1996-01-26 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit a definitive text of the "real" Homer. | ||
Book Description From the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece, this comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures focuses on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium. It stresses the role of performance and performer. | ||