Homeric Soundings - The Shaping of the Iliad

Zusatztext a must...which! if anything! appeals that much more on re-reading. Informationen zum Autor Taplin is the author of The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (OUP 1977, Clarendon Paperbacks 1989), Greek Tragedy in Action (Methuen 1978, revised edn 1985), Greek Fire (Jonathan Cape 1990), and with B. Rubens, An Odyssey Round Odysseus (BBC Books 1989). He presented the Radio 4 series on Odysseus (1989) and was academic adviser to the Channel 4 series `Greek Fire'. Klappentext This book combines the exploration of the 'ethics' of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, all the way from touches of phrasing to the shaping of whole scenes and the interaction between scenes often separated by thousands of lines. Zusammenfassung This book combines the exploration of the "ethics" of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of phrasing to the shaping of whole scenes often separated by thousands of lines. these two approaches to the Iliad - through "form" and through "content" - are found to be inextricably worked together, which is why the book consists of "soundings"or sample explorations, where larger arguments branch out from noticing details in the formaion of particualr passages.Homer was an archaic poet, and even if he could write he surely created the poems to be heard. It has generally been held that this rules our the possiblity of intricate complexities - the discoveries of many re-readings. This book maintains the contrary position: the kind of artistry uncovered, especially the long-distance interconnections, would be more rather than less accessible if perceived aurally. Furthermore, this then opens up further opportunities for shapings, patterns that would be more apparent when heard in real time than they are inside the uniform format of printed pages.These surroundings should interest those experienced in other literatures and cultures. All Greek quotations are also given in translation....

Product details

• Authors: Taplin, Oliver Taplin, Oliver (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Lati Taplin, Taplin Oliver
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.1995
• EAN: 9780198150145
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815014-5
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Shaping of the Iliad; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form