Homer and the oral tradition /
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| Author / Creator: | Kirk, G. S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1921- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976. |
| Description: | viii, 222 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/119576 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Homer: the meaning of an oral tradition
- 2. Dark Age and oral poet
- 3. War and the warrior in the Homeric poems
- 4. The oral and the literary epic
- 5. Homer and modern oral poetry: some confusions
- 6. Homer's Iliad and ours
- 7. Verse-structure and sentence-structure in Homer
- 8. Formular language and oral quality
- 9. The search for the real Homer
- Index