Title Poetry in speech : orality and Homeric discourse / Egbert J. Bakker

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Myth and poetics Myth and poetics. Contents Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- pt. 1. Perspectives. 1. The Construction of Orality. 2. The Writing of Homer -- pt. 2. Speech. 3. Consciousness and Cognition. 4. The Syntax of Movement. 5. Homeric Framings -- pt. 3. Special Speech. 6. Rhythm and Rhetoric. 7. Epithets and Epic Epiphany. 8. The Grammar of Poetry Summary Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord. One of the book's central features, related to the research of the linguist Wallace Chafe, is Bakker's conception of spoken discourse as a sequence of short speech units reflecting the flow of speech through the consciousness of the speaker. Bakker shows that such short speech units are present in Homeric poetry, with significant consequences for Homeric metrics and poetics. Considering Homeric discourse as a speech process rather than as the finished product associated with written discourse, Bakker's book offers a new perspective on Homer as well as on other archaic Greek texts. Here Homeric discourse appears as speech in its own right, and is freed, Bakker suggests, from the bias of modern writing style which too easily views Homeric discourse as archaic, implicitly taking the style of classical period texts as the norm. Bakker's perspective reaches beyond syntax and stylistics into the very heart of Homeric--and, ultimately, oral--poetics, altering the status of key features such as meter and formula, rethinking their relevance to the performance of Homeric poetry, and leading to surprising insights into the relation between "speech" and "text" in the encounter of the Homeric tradition with writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Homer -- Criticism and interpretation Homer fast Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Poetics -- History -- To 1500 Discourse analysis, Literary. Oral-formulaic analysis. Oral tradition -- Greece Speech in literature. literary criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Discourse analysis, Literary Epic poetry, Greek Oral-formulaic analysis Oral tradition Poetics Speech in literature Ilias (Homerus) Odyssea (Homerus) Mondelinge literatuur. Discourse analysis. Literatura grega clássica (crítica e interpretação) Greece Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019725812 ISBN 9781501722783 1501722786 1501722778 9781501722776

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