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Mythologizing Performance
Engelsk Paperback
Mythologizing Performance
Engelsk Paperback

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Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and precise poetics of archaic Greek verse. The ancient Greek hexameter poetry of such works as the Iliad and the Odyssey differ from most modern verbal art because it was composed for live, face-to-face performance, often in a competitive setting, before an audience well versed in mythological and ritual lore. The essays collected here span Martin''s acclaimed career and explore ways of reading this poetic heritage using principles and evidence from the comparative study of oral traditions, literary and speech-act theories, and the ethnographic record.

Among topics analyzed in depth are the narrative structures of Homer''s epics, the Hesiodic Works and Days, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo; the characterization of poetic and musical performers within the poems; the social context for verses ascribed to the legendary singer Orpheus; the significance of various rituals as stylized by poetic performances; and the interrelations, at the level of diction and theme, among the major genres of epic and hymn, as well as "genres of speaking" such as lament, praise, advice, and proverbial wisdom.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501713101
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501713108
Udg. Dato:
15 okt 2020
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 okt 2020
Forfatter(e):
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