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LISTENING TO HOMER Tradition, Narrative, and Audience
by Scodel, Ruth
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0472112651
- ISBN 13
- 9780472112654
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University of Michigan Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0472112651 . Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; The Homeric poems were not intended for readers, but for a listening audience. Traditional in their basic elements, the stories were learned by oral poets from earlier poets and recreated at every performance. Individual nuances, tailored to the audience, could creep into the stories of the Greek heroes on each and every occasion when a bard recited the epics. For a particular audience at a particular moment, "tradition" is what it believes it has inherited from the past--and it may not be particularly old. The boundaries between the traditional and the innovative may become blurry and indistinct. By rethinking tradition, we can see Homer's methods and concerns in a new light. The Homeric poet is not naive. He must convince his audience that the story is true. He must therefore seem disinterested, unconcerned with promoting anyone's interests. The poet speaks as if everything he says is merely the repetition of old tales. Yet he carefully ensures that even someone who knows only a minimal amount about the ancient heroes can follow and enjoy the performance, while someone who knows many stories will not remember inappropriate ones. Pretending that every detail is already familiar, the poet heightens suspense and implies that ordinary people are the real judges of great heroes. Listening to Homer transcends present controversies about Homeric tradition and invention by rethinking how tradition functions. Focusing on reception rather than on composition, Ruth Scodel argues that an audience would only rarely succeed in identifying narrative innovation. Homeric narrative relies on a traditionalizing, inclusive rhetoric that denies the innovation of the oral performance while providing enough information to make the epics intelligible to audiences for whom much of the material is new. Listening to Homer will be of interest to general classicists, as well as to those specializing in Greek epic and narrative performance. Its wide breadth and scope will also appeal to those non-classicists interested in the nature of oral performance. ; 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.75 Inches; 248 pages .
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- Title
- LISTENING TO HOMER Tradition, Narrative, and Audience
- Author
- Scodel, Ruth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0472112651
- ISBN 13
- 9780472112654
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0472112651, Classical Greek & Roman, Greek Literature, Literary Criticism, Epic Poetry, Poetry & Poets, Greek Literature, Homeric Epic, Homer And Homeric Epic, Mythology
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