Diachronic Dialogues

Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition

Автор: Ahuvia Kahane

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In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia K...

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Автор

Ahuvia Kahane

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2005

страници

274

EAN

9780739111338

ISBN

0739111337

Enbook ID

04668617

Издател

Lexington Books

Теглоt

558

Размери

164 x 228 x 27

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In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. This book makes the case for performative, rather than essential values in the Illiad and the Odyssey. On the one hand performativity allows Homeric epic form to enact diverse claims and agendas in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts. On the other hand, the performative character of Homer's values implies radical resistance to fixity of reference, forms of meaning, and patterning, etc. No individual performers or group of historical interpreters can thus claim exclusive authority over the song and its contents i.e. over its truth, knowledge, social codes, its diction, authorship, etc. The interaction of diversity and radical resistance marks the traditional and canonical icon we call "Homeric epic." It is a shared record of many pasts open to all but exclusive to none. Performativity may be a general quality of all poetic discourse, or indeed of language itself. Nevertheless, this study suggests that in historical terms Homeric poetry has been, and perhaps still is, one of the most prominent sites for exercising tradition and claims of cultural continuity. Diachronic Dialogues is an essential addition to scholarship in literary criticism and the classics.

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