The Oral Palimpsest : Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics Paperback / softback
by Christos Tsagalis
Part of the Hellenic Studies Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to an entire horizon of diverse variants of a story.
The Oral Palimpsest argues that just as the erased text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternative versions in the act of producing the signs of their erasure.
In this light, "Homer" reflects the concerted effort to create a Panhellenic canon of epic song, through which we can still retrieve the poikilia (roughly, "dappled, embroidered variation") of various interwoven fabrics belonging to recognizable song-traditions or even older Indo-European strata.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:326 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Publication Date:01/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780674026872
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:326 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Publication Date:01/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674026872
