The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives write by Jonathan L. Ready. This book was released on 2018. The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Artistry of the Homeric Simile write by William C. Scott. This book was released on 2012-01-15. The Artistry of the Homeric Simile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile
Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad
Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad write by Jonathan L. Ready. This book was released on 2013-12-19. Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made to contest through and over simile not only with one another but also with the narrator. Ready investigates the narrator's similes as well. He demonstrates that Homer amplifies the feat of a successful warrior by providing a competitive orientation to sequences of similes used to describe battle. He also offers a new interpretation of Homer's extended similes as a means for the poet to imagine his characters as competitors for his attention. Throughout this study, Ready makes innovative use of approaches from both Homeric studies and narratology that have not yet been applied to the analysis of Homer's similes.
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics write by Jonathan L. Ready. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier history by drawing on scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies to query from three different angles what it means to speak of Homeric poetry together with the word "text". Part I utilizes work in linguistic anthropology on oral texts and oral intertextuality to illuminate both the verbal and oratorical landscapes our Homeric poets fashion in their epics and what the poets were striving to do when they performed. Looking to folkloristics, part II examines modern instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work in order to reconstruct the creation of written versions of the Homeric poems through a process that began with a poet dictating to a scribe. Combining research into scribal activity in other cultures, especially in the fields of religious studies and medieval studies, with research into performance in the field of linguistic anthropology, part III investigates some of the earliest extant texts of the Homeric epics, the so-called wild papyri. By looking at oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts, this volume traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts, in a comparative and interdisciplinary study that will benefit researchers in a number of disciplines across the humanities.
Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World
Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World write by Elizabeth Minchin. This book was released on 2011-12-09. Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.
