"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"--
"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"--
Chiara Bozzone is currently Privatdozentin at the Institute for Indo-European and Historical Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: the paradox of homeric creativity 1. Formularity 2. Meter 3. Dialect 4. Creativity Conclusion: creativity, memory, and the muses.