The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (Myth and Poetics)

By Richard P. Martin

Book Overview

Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801423538
• ISBN13: 9780801423536
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: NCROL
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"