Homeric Contexts

Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027195-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 698 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1189 g

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Montanari, Franco

Tsagalis, Christos C.

Rengakos, Antonios

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy; Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.