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Written Voices, Spoken Signs
Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text
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1997
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Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine innovative essays in this volume--by leading scholars of Homer, oral poetics, and epic--focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry.
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Despite its wide range of topics and approaches, the volume has a clear thematic focus. All contributors seek to leave behind the more formal concerns of past generations of scholars and aim instead at an understanding of orality as that which is (conceptually or actually) close, immediate, or performed. In their joint search for the new picture, classicists, linguists, and medievalists discover a range of different 'oralities'.
-- J. Haubold Classical Review
-- J. Haubold Classical Review
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Foreword
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. Storytelling in the Future: Truth, Time, and Tense in Homeric Epic
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2. Writing the Emperor’s Clothes On: Literacy and the Production of Facts
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3. Traditional Signs and Homeric Art
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4. The Inland Ship: Problems in the Performance and Reception of Homeric Epic
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5. Hexameter Progression and the Homeric Hero’s Solitary State
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6. Similes and Performance
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7. Ellipsis in Homer
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8. Types of Orality in Text
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9. The Medial Approach: A Paradigm Shift in the Philologies?
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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