Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521558488)

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 the efforts of ancient scholars to edit a definitive text of the "real" Homer.

Author: Gregory Nagy
ISBN-10: 0521558484
ISBN-13: 9780521558488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/1996
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.40w x 0.53d