Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse /

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 o...

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Main Author: Bakker, Egbert J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.