| The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics Contributor(s): Tsagalis, Christos (Author) |
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ISBN: 067402687X ISBN-13: 9780674026872 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 883.01 |
| LCCN: 2007037296 |
| Series: Hellenic Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.73" W x 8.9" (1.16 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tsagalis, Christos: - Christos Tsagalis is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. |