Egbert J. Bakker 
Poetry in Speech [EPUB ebook] 
Orality and Homeric Discourse

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Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord.

One of the book’s central features, related to the research of the linguist Wallace Chafe, is Bakker’s conception of spoken discourse as a sequence of short speech units reflecting the flow of speech through the consciousness of the speaker. Bakker shows that such short speech units are present in Homeric poetry, with significant consequences for Homeric metrics and poetics. Considering Homeric discourse as a speech process rather than as the finished product associated with written discourse, Bakker’s book offers a new perspective on Homer as well as on other archaic Greek texts. Here Homeric discourse appears as speech in its own right, and is freed, Bakker suggests, from the bias of modern writing style which too easily views Homeric discourse as archaic, implicitly taking the style of classical period texts as the norm.

Bakker’s perspective reaches beyond syntax and stylistics into the very heart of Homeric—and, ultimately, oral—poetics, altering the status of key features such as meter and formula, rethinking their relevance to the performance of Homeric poetry, and leading to surprising insights into the relation between ‘speech’ and ‘text’ in the encounter of the Homeric tradition with writing.

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Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics and The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 256 ● ISBN 9781501722783 ● Tamanho do arquivo 0.8 MB ● Editora Cornell University Press ● Cidade Ithaca ● País US ● Publicado 2018 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 5620301 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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