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Poetry in Speech - Orality and Homeric Discourse

English · Paperback / Softback

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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...

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Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics and The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey.


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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...

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Authors Egbert J. Bakker
Publisher Cornell University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2019
 
EAN 9781501722769
ISBN 978-1-5017-2276-9
No. of pages 256
Series Myth and Poetics
Myth and Poetics
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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