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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Poetry in Speech
    sub title: Orality and Homeric Discourse
  name:
    name part: Bakker, Egbert J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Project Muse
    role:
      role term: distributor
  type of resource: text
  genre: History.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations.
  abstract: Applying 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.
  table of contents: Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- pt. 1. Perspectives. 1. The Construction of Orality. 2. The Writing of Homer -- pt. 2. Speech. 3. Consciousness and Cognition. 4. The Syntax of Movement. 5. Homeric Framings -- pt. 3. Special Speech. 6. Rhythm and Rhetoric. 7. Epithets and Epic Epiphany. 8. The Grammar of Poetry.
  note: Egbert J. Bakker.
  note: Open Access Unrestricted online access star
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homere
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Literatura grega clássica (crítica e interpretação)
  subject:
    topic: Discourse analysis
  subject:
    topic: Mondelinge literatuur
  subject:
    topic: Odyssea (Homerus)
  subject:
    topic: Ilias (Homerus)
  subject:
    topic: Speech in literature
  subject:
    topic: Poetics
  subject:
    topic: Oral tradition
  subject:
    topic: Oral-formulaic analysis
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Discourse analysis, Literary
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: literary criticism
  subject:
    topic: Parole dans la litterature
  subject:
    topic: Tradition orale
    geographic: Grece
  subject:
    topic: Poesie epique grecque
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Analyse des formules orales
  subject:
    topic: Discours litteraire
  subject:
    topic: Speech in literature
  subject:
    topic: Oral tradition
    geographic: Greece
  subject:
    topic: Oral-formulaic analysis
  subject:
    topic: Discourse analysis, Literary
  subject:
    topic: Poetics
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Greek
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Myth and poetics
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Book collections on Project MUSE
  identifier: 9781501722783
  identifier: 9780801432958
  identifier: 9781501722769
  identifier: 9781501722776
  identifier: 2019725812
  identifier: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58017/
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 210106
    record change date: 20240815120752.0
    record identifier: musev2_58017