Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond

by Gregory Nagy

Book Overview

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-performance. It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521558484
• ISBN13: 9780521558488
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"