Screen LibraryHomeric contexts : neoanalysis and the interpretation of oral poetry /
This volume addresses questions concerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan war; the signs of heroic cult in Homeric poetry; the function of memory; the relation between th...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in classics - supplementary volumes ;
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This volume addresses questions concerning Neoanalysis and Oral theory, the two most fruitful schools of thought in Homeric criticism. It explores the development of Greek myth with respect to the Trojan war; the signs of heroic cult in Homeric poetry; the function of memory; the relation between the catalogue of ships and the Iliadic narrative; the tragedy of Achilles; the travels of Odysseus; the Telemachy and the Nostoi, the false tales and Crete; the imagery of Odyssean similes; language and formulas; the Epic Cycle; Hesiod and Homer; the epic of Alpamysh; the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (708pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110272017http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110271997 |
| Index Number: | PA4037 |
| CLC: | I545.072 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. The Homeric Question Today -- Part I: Theoretical Issues -- Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy -- Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry -- Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet -- Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer -- : A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships -- Part II: Iliad -- The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59) -- Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life -- Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century -- The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad -- Grieving Achilles -- The Mourning of Thetis: Allusion and the Future in the Iliad -- Part III: Odyssey -- Belatedness in the Travels of Odyss -- The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi -- Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199 359) -- Animal Similes in Odyssey 22 -- : Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey -- Part IV: Language and Formulas -- Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad -- Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad -- Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction -- Part V: Homer and Beyond -- Homer in Chalcis -- Hesiod and the Epic Cycle -- The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann -- Some Reflections on Alpamysh -- The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Indices |