Poetry as Performance · Homer and Beyond
- Authors
- Nagy, Gregory
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Tags
- oral tradition , homer - criticism; textual , language arts & disciplines , oral interpretation of poetry - history - to 1500 , to 1500 , homer - technique , performing arts - greece - history - to 1500 , theory; etc , oral interpretation of poetry , oral tradition - greece - history - to 1500 , epic poetry; greek , history , performing arts , transmission of texts , epic poetry; greek - criticism; textual , epic poetry; greek - history and criticism - theory; etc , criticism; textual , history and criticism , oral-formulaic analysis , poetry , general
- ISBN
- 9780521558488
- Date
- 1996-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
From the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece, this comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures focuses on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium. It stresses the role of performance and performer.