04109nam 22006135 450 991027235080332120210622124120.01-5017-2277-810.7591/9781501722776(CKB)4340000000258181(MiAaPQ)EBC5317487(DE-B1597)496634(OCoLC)1028942843(DE-B1597)9781501722776(EXLCZ)99434000000025818120180924d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPoetry in Speech Orality and Homeric Discourse /Egbert J. BakkerIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2018]©19971 online resource (240 pages)Myth and Poetics0-8014-3295-2 1-5017-2278-6 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Frontmatter --Contents --Foreword /Nagy, Gregory --Acknowledgments /Bakker, Egbert J. --Introduction --PART ONE. PERSPECTIVES --CHAPTER I. The Construction of Orality --CHAPTER 2. The Writing of Homer --PART TWO. SPEECH --CHAPTER 3. Consciousness and Cognition --CHAPTER 4. The Syntax of Movement --CHAPTER 5. Homeric Framings --PART THREE. SPECIAL SPEECH --CHAPTER 6. Rhythm and Rhetoric --CHAPTER 7. Epithets and Epic Epiphany --CHAPTER 8. The Grammar of Poetry --Speech and Text: A Conclusion --Bibliography --Index Locorum --General Index --MYTH AND POETICSApplying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord.One of the book's central features, related to the research of the linguist Wallace Chafe, is Bakker's conception of spoken discourse as a sequence of short speech units reflecting the flow of speech through the consciousness of the speaker. Bakker shows that such short speech units are present in Homeric poetry, with significant consequences for Homeric metrics and poetics. Considering Homeric discourse as a speech process rather than as the finished product associated with written discourse, Bakker's book offers a new perspective on Homer as well as on other archaic Greek texts. Here Homeric discourse appears as speech in its own right, and is freed, Bakker suggests, from the bias of modern writing style which too easily views Homeric discourse as archaic, implicitly taking the style of classical period texts as the norm. Bakker's perspective reaches beyond syntax and stylistics into the very heart of Homeric-and, ultimately, oral-poetics, altering the status of key features such as meter and formula, rethinking their relevance to the performance of Homeric poetry, and leading to surprising insights into the relation between "speech" and "text" in the encounter of the Homeric tradition with writing.Myth and poetics.Epic poetry, GreekHistory and criticismPoeticsHistoryTo 1500Discourse analysis, LiteraryOral-formulaic analysisOral traditionGreeceSpeech in literatureEpic poetry, GreekHistory and criticism.PoeticsHistoryDiscourse analysis, Literary.Oral-formulaic analysis.Oral traditionSpeech in literature.883/.01Bakker Egbert J.172351Bakker Egbert J., ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbNagy Gregory, ctbhttps://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctbDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910272350803321Poetry in speech1245183UNINA