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Poetry as Performance : Homer and Beyond
Poetry as Performance Homer and Beyond
Author: Gregory Nagy
This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521551359
ISBN-10: 0521551358
Publication Date: 1/26/1996
Pages: 271
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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