Pindar's Verbal Art : An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style Paperback / softback
by James Bradley Wells
Part of the Hellenic Studies Series series
Paperback / softback
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In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter.
This is the first study of Pindar’s language that applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art.
In Mikhail Bakhtin’s terms, Pindar’s Verbal Art is a sociological stylistics of epinician language and demonstrates that Pindar’s is a highly dialogical form of art, an intertextual web of voices, whose study enables us to appreciate popular dimensions of his songs.
Wells offers a new take on recurrent Pindaric questions: genre, the unity of the victory song, tradition, and, principally, epinician performance.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Publication Date:01/02/2010
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- ISBN:9780674036277
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Publication Date:01/02/2010
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- ISBN:9780674036277
