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Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

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Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521558484
ISBN13: 9780521558488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 26 1996
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
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 stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit a definitive text of the real Homer.

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