Poetry as Performance : Homer and Beyond

Name: Poetry as Performance
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521558488
Price: 7900 KES
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ISBN: 9780521558488

by Gregory Nagy

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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

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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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.

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.

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