Poetry as Performance : Homer and Beyond
by
Gregory Nagy
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521558484
ISBN-13
9780521558488
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 1996
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
321 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 13.80 x 1.50 cms
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With Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the watershed era of Aristarchus, around 150 BC, the gradual movement from relatively more fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualization.
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 emphasises the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.
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