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Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond

Book: English. Library collection
Author(s)
Nagy, Gregory
Title
Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond / Gregory Nagy
Publication
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Subjects
Improvised Verse Singing (generic)
Physical description
254 or.
Type of material
Book
Localization
XDZ - Xenpelar Dokumentazio Zentroa
Notes
Bibliografia: 229-247 or.
Aurkibidea: 248-254 or.
Preface ...ix
Introduction. A Brief Survey of Concepts and Aims ...1

Part I. Mimesis and the Making of Identity in Poetic Performance ...5
1. The Homeric Nightingale and the Poetics of Variation in the Art of a Troubadour ...7
2. Mimesis, Models of Singers, and the Meaning of a Homeric Epithet ...39
3. Mimesis of Homer and Beyond ...59
4. Mimesis in Lyric: Sappho’s Aphrodite and the Changing Woman of the Apache ...87

Part II. Fixed Text in Theory, Shifting Words in Performance ...105
5. Multiform Epic and Aristarchus’ Quest for the Real Homer ...107
6. Homer as Script ...153
7. Homer as “Scripture” ...187

Epilogue. Dead Poets and Recomposed Performers ...207
Appendix ...226
Bibliography ...229
Index ...248