Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological tools and preconceptions concerning what we call Homeric poetry. The neoanalytical and oral 'booms', which have to a large extent influenced the way we see Homer today, may be re-evaluated if we are willing to endorse a more flexible approach to certain scholarly taboos pertaining to these two schools of interpretation. Song-traditions, formula, performance, multiformity on the one hand, and Motivforschung, Epic Cycle on the other, may not be so incompatible as we often tend to think.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110271958
• ISBN13: 9783110271959
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary