Poetry as performance : Homer and beyond /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nagy, Gregory.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description:	x, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Homer -- Criticism, Textual. Homer -- Technique. Homer. Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Epic poetry, Greek -- Criticism, Textual. Oral interpretation of poetry -- History. Performing arts -- Greece -- History. Oral tradition -- Greece -- History. Transmission of texts. Epic poetry, Greek. Oral-formulaic analysis. Oral interpretation of poetry. Oral tradition. Performing arts. Technique. Transmission of texts. Greece. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2398447

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ISBN:	0521551358 (hardback) 0521558484 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: a brief survey of concepts and aims
Part I. Mimesis and the making of identity in poetic performance
1. The Homeric nightingale and the poetics of variation in the art of a troubadour
2. Mimesis, models of singers, and the meaning of a Homeric epithet
3. Mimesis of Homer and beyond
4. Mimesis in lyric: Sappho's Aphrodite and the Changing Woman of the Apache
Part II. Fixed text in theory, shifting words in performance
5. Multiform epic and Aristarchus' quest for the real Homer
6. Homer as script
7. Homer as "scripture"
Epilogue: dead poets and recomposed performers
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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