The Interpretation of Order : A Study in the Poetics of Homeric Repetition
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN-10
0198140770
ISBN-13
9780198140771
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 13th, 1994
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 14.50 x 1.80 cms
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A totally original and exciting new study on Homer. Drawing on the latest linguistic and literary theory, Kahane looks at the literary significance of word repetition and linguistic patterns in Homer, and highlights the sophisticated irony, allusion, and ambiguity in Homer's discourse.
This is an exciting and original study on the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a "meaning" that extends beyond their immediate context. This meaning often interacts with context-specific semantic features, creating a discourse that is replete with ambiguity, ambivalence, irony, and allusion. The discussion draws on recent approaches in linguistics and literary criticism, including narratology, pragmatics, socio-linguistics, discourse analysis, and speech-act theory, but lays emphasis on the primary text as an object of study. The author shows how Homer''s polysemic texture contributes to the presentation of key literary topics such as the image of the hero in the Iliad or disguise and recognition in the Odyssey.
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