Homer in Performance : Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters /

Homer in Performance : Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters /

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Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the...

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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Bachvarova, Mary R. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Beck, Deborah (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Bonifazi, Anna (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Bundrick, Sheramy D. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Christensen, Joel P. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Gangloff, Anne (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Garcia Jr, Lorenzo F. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Kelly, Adrian (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Levaniouk, Olga (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), O'Maley, James (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Ready, Jonathan L. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Ready, Jonathan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tsagalis, Christos C. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Tsagalis, Christos (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism > Theory, etc
Oral interpretation of poetry
Oral tradition > Greece
Performing arts > Appreciation > Greece
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Iota Adscript and the Transliteration of Proper Nouns
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Rhapsodes
  • Chapter One Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods
  • Chapter Two Reading Rhapsodes on Athenian Vases
  • Chapter Three Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Hellenistic Period
  • Chapter Four Rhapsodes and Rhapsodic Contests in the Imperial Period
  • Chapter Five Formed on the Festival Stage: Plot and Characterization in the Iliad as a Competitive Collaborative Process
  • Chapter Six Did Sappho and Homer Ever Meet? Comparative Perspectives on Homeric Singers
  • Part II Narrators and Characters
  • Chapter Seven Odysseus Polyonymous
  • Chapter Eight Embedded Focalization and Free Indirect Speech in Homer as Viewpoint Blending
  • Chapter Nine Speech Training and the Mastery of Context: Thoas the Aetolian and the Practice of Muthoi
  • Chapter Ten Diomedes as Audience and Speaker in the Iliad
  • Chapter E leven Hektor, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue
  • Chapter Twelve Performance, Oral Texts, and Entextualization in Homeric Epic
  • Chapter Thirteen Homer's Rivals? Internal Narrators in the Iliad
  • Works Cited
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Terms
  • Index of Passages

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