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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493685003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4773-1604-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 pages)

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Performing arts - Appreciation - Greece

Oral interpretation of poetry

Oral tradition - Greece

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.