TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bachvarova,Mary R.
AU  - Beck,Deborah
AU  - Bonifazi,Anna
AU  - Bundrick,Sheramy D.
AU  - Christensen,Joel P.
AU  - Gangloff,Anne
AU  - Garcia Jr,Lorenzo F.
AU  - Kelly,Adrian
AU  - Levaniouk,Olga
AU  - O’Maley,James
AU  - Ready,Jonathan
AU  - Ready,Jonathan L.
AU  - Tsagalis,Christos
AU  - Tsagalis,Christos C.
TI  - Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters 
SN  - 9781477316047
AV  - PA4037 .H77474 2018
U1  - 883/.01 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Oral interpretation of poetry
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Greece
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; A Note on Iota Adscript and the Transliteration of Proper Nouns --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I Rhapsodes --; Chapter One Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods --; Chapter Two Reading Rhapsodes on Athenian Vases --; Chapter Three Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Hellenistic Period --; Chapter Four Rhapsodes and Rhapsodic Contests in the Imperial Period --; Chapter Five Formed on the Festival Stage: Plot and Characterization in the Iliad as a Competitive Collaborative Process --; Chapter Six Did Sappho and Homer Ever Meet? Comparative Perspectives on Homeric Singers --; Part II Narrators and Characters --; Chapter Seven Odysseus Polyonymous --; Chapter Eight Embedded Focalization and Free Indirect Speech in Homer as Viewpoint Blending --; Chapter Nine Speech Training and the Mastery of Context: Thoas the Aetolian and the Practice of Muthoi --; Chapter Ten Diomedes as Audience and Speaker in the Iliad --; Chapter E leven Hektor, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue --; Chapter Twelve Performance, Oral Texts, and Entextualization in Homeric Epic --; Chapter Thirteen Homer’s Rivals? Internal Narrators in the Iliad --; Works Cited --; Notes on Contributors --; Index of Terms --; Index of Passages; restricted access
N2  - Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts—performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/316030
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477316047
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477316047/original
ER  -