Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond - Couverture souple

Nagy, Gregory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521558484 ISBN 13 : 9780521558488

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Nagy Gregory

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very beginnings of literacy to the critical era of textual canonisations in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Professor Nagy applies the comparative evidence of oral poetic traditions, including those that survived in literate societies, such as the Provençal troubadour tradition. It appears that a song cannot be fixed as a final written text so long as the oral poetic tradition in which it was created stays alive. So also with Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the time of Aristarchus, the gradual movement from relatively fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualisation.

Revue de presse :

"In this technical yet clear book, Nagy explores how the Homeric poems, stemming from an oral tradition that can be traced to the middle of the second millenium BCE, became the written texts of today....Rich in detail, knowledge and scope, Nagy's book (the culmination of years of work) offers a lucid, well-argued approach to these problems. It will interest not only specialists in ancient Greek poetry, but anyone concerned with oral traditions." P. Nieto, Choice

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521558484
• ISBN 13: 9780521558488
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268