Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 237 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
9780801432958
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1501722778
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0801432952
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1501722778
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9780801432958
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9781501722776
Series Statement:
Myth and poetics
Content:
Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord. One of the book's central features, related to the research of the linguist Wallace Chafe, is Bakker's conception of spoken discourse as a sequence of short speech units reflecting the flow of speech through the consciousness of the speaker. Bakker shows that such short speech units are present in Homeric poetry, with significant consequences for Homeric metrics and poetics. Considering Homeric discourse as a speech process - rather than as the finished product associated with written discourse - Bakker's book offers a new perspective on Homer as well as on other archaic Greek texts
Content:
Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- Pt. 1. Perspectives. 1. The Construction of Orality. 2. The Writing of Homer -- Pt. 2. Speech. 3. Consciousness and Cognition. 4. The Syntax of Movement. 5. Homeric Framings -- Pt. 3. Special Speech. 6. Rhythm and Rhetoric. 7. Epithets and Epic Epiphany. 8. The Grammar of Poetry.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and indexes
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Additional Edition:
Print version Bakker, Egbert J Poetry in speech Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997
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English
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Author information:
Bakker, Egbert J. 1958-
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