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Homer and the poetics of gesture / Alex C. Purves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purves, Alex C., 1972- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in late antiquity.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in late antiquity
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gesture in literature.
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Homer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This title draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.
- Contents:
- Falling
- Running
- Leaping
- Standing
- Reaching.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 9, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-085794-3
- 0-19-085795-1
- 0-19-085793-5
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