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Hardcover Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry Book

ISBN: 0525520945

ISBN13: 9780525520948

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry

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From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature.

In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric...

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