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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Minchin, PhD (1990) in Classics, Australian National University, teaches Ancient Greek and Latin language and literature at the ANU. Her research field is Homer and memory. Recent publications are Homer and the Resources of Memory and Homeric Voices . Contributors include: Deborah Beck, Anna Bonifazi, Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, James Collins, David Elmer, Adrian Kelly, Jeroen Lauwers, Patrizia Marzillo, Jonathan Ready, Ruth Scodel, Niall Slater and McComas Taylor. Klappentext This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included. Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Elizabeth Minchin; Part I Poetry in Performance; Chapter 1 The Audience Expects: Penelope and Odysseus; Adrian Kelly; Chapter 2 The Presentation of Song in Homer's Odyssey; Deborah Beck; Chapter 3 Comparative Perspectives on the Composition of the Homeric Simile; Jonathon Ready; Chapter 4 Composing Lines, Performing Acts: Clauses, Discourse Acts, and; Melodic Units in a South Slavic Epic Song; Anna Bonifazi and David F. Elmer; Chapter 5 Works and Days as Performance; Ruth Scodel; Part II Literacy and Orality; Chapter 6 Empowering the Sacred: The Function of the Sanskrit Text in a; Contemporary Exposition of the Bhagavatapurana; McComas Taylor; Chapter 7 Prompts for Participation in Early Philosophical Texts; James Henderson Collins II; Chapter 8 Performing an Academic Talk: Proclus on Hesiod's Works and Days; Patrizia Marzillo; Chapter 9 The Criticism--and the Practice--of Literacy in the Ancient; Philosophical Tradition; Mathilde Cambron-Goulet; Chapter 10 Reading Books, Talking Culture: The Performance of Paideia in; Imperial Greek Literature; Jeroen Lauwers; Chapter 11 Eumolpus Poeta at Work: Rehearsed Spontaneity in the Satyricon; Niall Slater ...
