Homer and the Poetics of Gesture

This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.

List of contents

• Contents


• Acknowledgments


• List of Figures


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1. Falling


• 2. Running


• 3. Leaping


• 4. Standing


• 5. Reaching


• 6. Conclusion


• 7. Bibliography


• Index Locorum


• General Index

About the author

Alex C. Purves is Professor of Classics at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative and the editor of Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (with Shane Butler) and Touch and the Ancient Senses. She has also written several articles on Homer and archaic Greek poetry.

Summary

This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.

Additional text

Recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Alex C. Purves, Alex C. (Professor of Classics Purves, Purves Alex C.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.2022
• EAN: 9780197651193
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765119-3
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Dance, POETRY / General, Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Folklore, myths & legends, Other performing arts, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Literary studies: poetry and poets