Epic Rhapsode and His Craft

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-674-05589-6
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 834 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 1164 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. Attention to the ways in which these performance domains informed each other over time reveals a shifting dynamic of competition and emulation among rhapsodes, actors, and orators that shaped their texts and their crafts. A diachronic analysis of this web of influences illuminates fundamental aspects of Homeric poetry: its inspiration and composition, the notional fixity of its poetic tradition, and the performance-driven textual fixation and writing of the Homeric poems. It also shows that rhapsodic practice is best understood as an evolving combination of revelation, interpretation, recitation, and dramatic delivery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gonzalez, Jose Gamaliel

González, José M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

González, José M.
José M. González is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.