Homer in performance : rhapsodes, narrators, and characters / edited by Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis

Published:: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Copyright Date:: ©2018
�2018
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: ix, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Ready, Jonathan L., 1976- and Tsagalis, Christos

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Series:

Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis -- pt. 1. Rhapsodes -- Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the archaic and classical periods / Christos C. Tsagalis -- Reading rhapsodes on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick -- Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the Hellenistic period / Christos C. Tsagalis -- Rhapsodes and rhapsodic contests in the imperial period / Anne Gangloff -- Formed on the festival stage : plot and characterization in the iliad as a competitive collaborative process / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Did Sappho and Homer ever meet? comparative perspectives on homeric singers / Olga Levaniouk -- pt. 2. Narrators and characters -- Odysseus polyonymous / Deborah Beck -- Embedded focalization and free indirect speech in Homer as viewpoint blending / Anna Bonifazi -- Speech training and the mastery of context : Thoas the Aetolian and the practice of muthoi / Joel P. Christensen -- Diomedes as audience and speaker in the Iliad / James O'Maley -- Hektor, the marginal hero : performance theory and the Homeric monologue / Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr -- Performance, oral texts, and entextualization in Homeric epic / Jonathan L. Ready -- Homer's rivals? internal narrators in the Iliad / Adrian Kelly.

Report Numbers:

Z UA380.8 H752

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Genre(s):

Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9781477316030 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1477316035 hardcover ; alkaline paper

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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