Author: Chiara Bozzone
Publisher:
ISBN: 1009079816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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What if formularity, meter, and Kunstsprache in Homer weren't abstract, mechanical systems that constrained the poet's freedom, but rather adaptive technologies that helped poets to sustain feats of great creativity? This book explores this hypothesis by reassessing the key formal features of Homer's poetic technique through the lenses of contemporary linguistics and the cognitive sciences, as well as by drawing some unexpected parallels from the contemporary world (from the dialects of English used in popular music, to the prosodic strategies employed in live sports commentary, to the neuroscience of jazz improvisation). Aimed at Classics students and specialists alike, this book provides thorough and accessible introductions to the main debates in Homeric poetics, along with new and thought-provoking ways of understanding Homeric creativity.
Author: Chiara Bozzone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131651241X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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A fresh account of Homer's creativity using contemporary linguistics and cognitive sciences and parallels from modern-day popular culture.
Author: Steve Reece
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004174419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer s 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry s oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another. The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our Homeric texts.
Author: G. P. Shipp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521038263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Examines the Odyssey as well as the Iliad.
Author: Homer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Author: Alexander Chalmers
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ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Author: Alexander Chalmers
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Author: Homer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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