The Oral palimpsest : exploring intertextuality in the Homeric epics / Christos C. Tsagalis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsagalis, Christos, author.

Contributor:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 29.

Hellenic studies ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Homer. Iliad.

Homer. Odyssey.

Intertextuality.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 325 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to an entire horizon of diverse variants of a story. The Oral Palimpsest argues that just as the erased text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternative versions in the act of producing the signs of their erasure. In this light, "Homer" reflects the concerted effort to create a Panhellenic canon of epic song, through which we can still retrieve the poikilia (roughly, "dappled, embroidered variation") of various interwoven fabrics belonging to recognizable song-traditions or even older Indo-European strata.

Contents:

Andromache mainomene : the Dionysiac element in the Iliad

Chariessa and stygere aoide : the self-referential encomium of the Odyssey and the tradition of the Nostoi

Nausicaa and the Daughters of Anius : terms and limits of epic rivalry

Intertextual fissures : the returns of Odysseus and the new Penelope

Achilleus, elenen epithymei theasasthai : from the Cypria to the Iliad

Viewing from the walls, viewing Helen : language and indeterminacy in the 'Teichoscopia'

Time games: the 'twenty-year' absent hero

The formula "nuktos amolgo" : Homeric reflections of an Indo-European metaphor

Genealogy and imagery of a Homeric formula : pepsyzotes eyte nebroi

The rhetorics of supplication and the epic intertext (Iliad I 493-516)

Intertextuality and intratextual distality : Thetis' lament in Iliad XVIII 52-64

Mapping the hypertext : similes in Iliad XXII.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-312) and indexes.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Tsagalis, Christos. Oral palimpsest.

OCLC:

944189440