Pt. I. Mimesis and the making of identity in poetic performance. 1. The Homeric nightingale and the poetics of variation in the art of a troubadour. 2. Mimesis, models of singers, and the meaning of a Homeric epithet. 3. Mimesis of Homer and beyond. 4. Mimesis in lyric: Sappho's Aphrodite and the Changing Woman of the Apache -- Pt. II. Fixed text in theory, shifting words in performance. 5. Multiform epic and Aristarchus' quest for the real Homer. 6. Homer as script. 7. Homer as "scripture" -- Epilogue: dead poets and recomposed performers
Analysis
Greek poetry
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index