Poetry as Performance

Poetry as Performance
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0521558484
ISBN-13 : 9780521558488
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Book Synopsis Poetry as Performance by : Gregory Nagy

Download or read book Poetry as Performance written by Gregory Nagy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very beginnings of literacy to the critical era of textual canonisations in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Professor Nagy applies the comparative evidence of oral poetic traditions, including those that survived in literate societies, such as the Provençal troubadour tradition. It appears that a song cannot be fixed as a final written text so long as the oral poetic tradition in which it was created stays alive. So also with Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the time of Aristarchus, the gradual movement from relatively fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualisation.


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