G. S. Kirk, Kirk G. S.

Homer and the Oral Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk considers the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780521136716
• ISBN-10: 0521136717
• Artikelnr.: 29425172

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Homer: the meaning of an oral tradition
2. Dark Age and oral poet
3. War and the warrior in the Homeric poems
4. The oral and the literary epic
5. Homer and modern oral poetry: some confusions
6. Homer's Iliad and ours
7. Verse-structure and sentence-structure in Homer
8. Formular language and oral quality
9. The search for the real Homer
Index.