Edwards Sound, Sense, and Rhythm

Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2483-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Martin Classical Lectures

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Mark W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

CHAPTER ONE: Homer I: Poetry and Speech 1

The Older Discoveries: Frankel and Parry 2

The New Theories. Functional Grammar and the Grammar of Speech 9

Homeric Style in Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur 14

Homeric Style in the Duels of Achilles 18

CHAPTER TWO: Homer 11: Scenes and Summaries 38

The Book Divisions 39

The Paragraph Divisions 47

Joining Episode to Episode 53

Continuity and Oral Poetics 58

CHAPTER THREE: Music and Meaning in Three Songs of Aeschylus 62

The First Choral Song (Agamemnon 104-257) 71

The Second Choral Song (Agamemnon 367-488) 81

The Third Choral Song (Agamemnon 681-781) 88

The Rest of the Agamemnon, and of the Trilogy 95

CHAPTER FOUR: Poetry in the Latin Language 99

Latin Word Order 99

Ambiguity in Latin Verse 105

Propertius 1.19 109

AFTERWORD 125

APPENDIX A: Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur 129

APPENDIX B: "" Continuity in Mrs. Dalloway 149

APPENDIX C: The Performance of Homeric Episodes 151

APPENDIX D: Classical Meters in Modern English Verse 166

REFERENCES 179

INDEX 189

Über Autor(innen)

Mark W. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He is the author of Homer: Poet of the Iliad and Volume 5 of The Iliad: A Commentary.