Homer''s Living Language - Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in Oral-Traditional Poetry

"An accessible, up-to-date, and innovative account of key features of Homer's poetry (formularity, meter, and dialect). This book is informed by contemporary linguistics and cognitive sciences, and leverages unexpected modern-day parallels (popular music, jazz improvisation, sports commentary) to illustrate Homer's creativity"--

List of contents

Introduction: the paradox of homeric creativity; 1. Formularity; 2. Meter; 3. Dialect; 4. Creativity; Conclusion: creativity, memory, and the muses.

About the author

Chiara Bozzone is currently Privatdozentin at the Institute for Indo-European and Historical Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Summary

An accessible, up-to-date, and innovative account of key features of Homer's poetry (formularity, meter, and dialect). This book is informed by contemporary linguistics and cognitive sciences, and leverages unexpected modern-day parallels (popular music, jazz improvisation, sports commentary) to illustrate Homer's creativity.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Bozzone, Chiara (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Mu Bozzone, Chiara (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) Bozzone
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781316512418
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51241-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient World, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Classical style, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, c 500 BCE to c 1BCE, For higher / tertiary / university education