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Rethinking Orality II
The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication System in the Case of the Archaic Epos
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Edited by:
Andrea Ercolani
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
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This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry, following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the research explores the complexity of the literary message of the Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects, i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in the history of the genre.
Author / Editor information
Andrea Ercolani, ISMed, National Research Council, Italy; Laura Lulli, Department of Human Studies, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Introduction: Orality and Epic Poetry. Old Questions and New Perspectives
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Mind-based Research Meets the Homeric Epics: Looking Again at Communicative Strategies in the Homeric Epics
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Interformulaic Homer: Evidence from the “Wild” Papyri
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Two Chronological Extremes of the Homeric Language: πρόφρασσα and εἶπα
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Technologies of Orality: Formularity, Meter, and Kunstsprache in Homer
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A Cyclic Theme in the Odyssey: The Oresteia in Zeus’ Speech (1, 28–43)
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Audiences of the Prophecy of Tiresias in Odyssey Book XI
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Traces of Orality in the Histories: The Homeric ‘Heritage’ in Herodotean Battles and Speeches
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Some Reflections on Orality and Epic Poetry in Ancient Literary Criticism
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Homer and ‘the Elegists’: an Ancient Construction of Difference
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Paradoxes of ‘Orality’: A Comparison between Homeric Oral Poetry and the Heroic and Courtly Epics in Middle High German
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Epos and Orality: Conclusive Remarks and Open Questions
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Index Notable Things
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Index Discussed Passages
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 6, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110751963
Hardcover published on:
June 6, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110750744
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
218
Illustrations:
1
Coloured Illustrations:
4
Tables:
6
Keywords for this book
Transcodification; Translation Studies; orality; ancient communicative system; archaic Greek epic poetry; culture
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students of Classical Studies, Greek Language and Literature, Linguistics, Cultural Studies and Media Theory
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BY 4.0
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