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Poetry as Performance

Homer and Beyond

Poetry as Performance( )
Author: Nagy, Gregory
ISBN:978-0-521-55848-8
Publication Date:Jan 1996
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $67.95
Book Description:

This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It emphasises the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.



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