Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

by Gregory Nagy

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521558484

ISBN13:9780521558488

Release Date:February 1996

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Ancient & Classical Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Fantasy Epics Greek History & Criticism Humanities Language Arts Literary Criticism

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