One man show : poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey /

One man show : poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey /

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Author / Creator:	Kretler, Katherine author.
Imprint:	Washington DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2020. ©2020
Description:	384 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Hellenic studies series 78 Hellenic studies ; 78.
Subject:	Homer. -- Iliad. Homer. -- Odyssey. Iliad (Homer) Odyssey (Homer)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12538774

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ISBN:	9780674980020 0674980026
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page? Readers may be readily impressed by the vividness of the poems, but they may miss out on the strange presence or uncanniness that the performer evoked in ancient audience members such as Plato and Aristotle. This book focuses on the performer not simply as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories and presences, who brings suppressed voices to the surface. Performance is inextricable from all aspects of the poems, from image to structure to background story. Background stories previously neglected, even in some of the most familiar passages (such as Phoenix's speech in Iliad 9) are brought to the surface, and passages readers tend to rush through (such as Odysseus's encounter with Eumaeus) are shown to have some of the richest dramatic potential. Attending to performance enlivens isolated features in a given passage by showing how they work together"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Elements of Poetics and Presence
2. Marpessa, Kleopatra, and Phoenix
Interlude 1. Ring Thinking: Phoenix in Iliad 23
3. Half-Burnt. The Wife of Protesilaos In and Out of the Iliad
Interlude 2. A Source for the Iliad's Structure
4. The Living Instrument: Odyssey 13-15 in Performance
Conclusion
Appendix A. Rhapsodes in Vase Painting; Rhapsoidia
Appendix B. The Homeric Performer, the Staff, and "Becoming the Character"
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Homeric Passages