The Homeric Simile In Comparative Perspectives

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Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.

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Genre : Foreign Language Study
Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2018
File : 332 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780198802556


Orality Textuality And The Homeric Epics

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Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier history by drawing on scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies to query from three different angles what it means to speak of Homeric poetry together with the word "text". Part I utilizes work in linguistic anthropology on oral texts and oral intertextuality to illuminate both the verbal and oratorical landscapes our Homeric poets fashion in their epics and what the poets were striving to do when they performed. Looking to folkloristics, part II examines modern instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work in order to reconstruct the creation of written versions of the Homeric poems through a process that began with a poet dictating to a scribe. Combining research into scribal activity in other cultures, especially in the fields of religious studies and medieval studies, with research into performance in the field of linguistic anthropology, part III investigates some of the earliest extant texts of the Homeric epics, the so-called wild papyri. By looking at oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts, this volume traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts, in a comparative and interdisciplinary study that will benefit researchers in a number of disciplines across the humanities.

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Genre : Poetry
Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2019-07-30
File : 371 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192571939


Orality Literacy And Performance In The Ancient World

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This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Elizabeth Minchin
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2011-12-09
File : 287 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004217744


The Homeric Simile In Comparative Perspectives

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Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.

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Genre : Greek language
Author : Jonathan L. Ready
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File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 0191840831


The Artistry Of The Homeric Simile

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The similes in Homer are treasure troves. They describe scenes of Greek life that are not presented in their simplest form anywhere else: landscapes and seascapes, storms and calm weather, fighting among animals, civic disputes, athletic contests, horse races, community entertainment, women involved in their daily tasks, men running their farms and orchards. These basic paratactic additions to the narrative show how the Greeks found and developed parallels between two scenes—each of which elucidated and interpreted the other—then expressed those scenes in effective poetic language. In The Artistry of the Homeric Simile, Scott explores the variations and modifications that Homer employs in order to make similes blend expressively with the larger context. This engaging study will help unlock the richness of Homer for the modern reader.

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Genre : Foreign Language Study
Author : William Clyde Scott
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Release : 2009
File : 286 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105124112827


Colby Quarterly

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Genre : American literature
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Release : 2002
File : 444 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000088013580


The Critical Perspective

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Release : 1985
File : 648 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0877547904


Comparative Literature

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Genre : Comparative literature
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Release : 1983
File : 428 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B4927880


Arion

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Genre : Classical philology
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Release : 1974
File : 576 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015008005129


The Epic Simile From Homer To Milton

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Author : Stephen A. Nimis
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Release : 1981
File : 554 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:319510010572832