Homer's traditional art

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In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in orde...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Foley, John Miles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Epic poetry, Greek > Greece > History and criticism.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Oral tradition.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Epic poetry, Greek.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Pronunciation Key
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Homer's Sign-Language
  • 1 Homeric Signs and Traditional Referentiality
  • Part II: Homeric and South Slavic Epic
  • 2 Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: The Analogy and the Singers
  • 3 Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: Traditional Register
  • 4 Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: Traditional Referentiality
  • Part III: Reading Homer's Signs
  • 5 Story-Pattern as Sêma: The Odyssey as a Return Song
  • 6 Typical Scenes of Feast and Lament
  • 7 Word, Idiom, Speech-Act: The Traditional Phrase as Sêma
  • Part IV: Homeric Signs and Odyssey 23
  • 8 Rereading Odyssey 23
  • Afterword: "Deor" and Anglo-Saxon Sêmata
  • Appendix I: Feasting in Homer
  • Appendix II: "Deor"
  • Notes
  • Master Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index Locorum

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