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Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
Nagy, Gregory (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It emphasises the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.
268 pages, bibliography, index
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 26, 1996 |
ISBN13 | 9780521558488 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Dimensions | 138 × 217 × 15 mm · 321 g |