Format:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004217751
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser. v.335
Content:
This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. POETRY IN PERFORMANCE -- A. Kelly: The Audience Expects: Penelope and Odysseus -- D. Beck: The Presentation of Song in Homer's Odyssey -- J. Ready: Comparative Perspectives on the Composition of the Homeric Simile -- A. Bonifazi and D.F. Elmer: Composing Lines, Performing Acts: Clauses, Discourse Acts, and Melodic Units in a South Slavic Epic Song -- R. Scodel: Works and Days As Performance -- PART II. LITERACY AND ORALITY -- M. Taylor: Empowering the Sacred: The Function of the Sanskrit Text in a Contemporary Exposition of the Bhagavatapurana -- J. Henderson Collins II: Prompts for Participation in Early Philosophical Texts -- P. Marzillo: Performing an Academic Talk: Proclus on Hesiod's Works and Days -- M. Cambron-Goulet: The Criticism-and the Practice-of Literacy in the Ancient Philosophical Tradition -- J. Lauwers: Reading Books, Talking Culture: The Performance of Paideia in Imperial Greek Literature -- N.W. Slater: Eumolpus Poeta at Work: Rehearsed Spontaneity in the Satyricon -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004217744
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004217744
Language:
English
Keywords:
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