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Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

Tsagalis, Christos C.
Montanari, Franco
Rengakos, Antonios

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, Book 12

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3110271958
ISBN13: 9783110271959
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Apr 16 2012
Pages: 708
Weight: 2.56
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

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