Postoral Homer
Orality and Literacy in the Homeric Epic
By (author) Rainer Friedrich
Paperback (Published)
(April 2019)
ISBN: 9783515120487
6.69 x 9.49 inches
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Milman Parry’s comparative study of Homer and Southslavic oral song had demonstrated the existence of an oral tradition behind and within the Homeric Epic, thus establishing an indisputable link between Homer and oral poetry. Yet its exact nature has remained a moot point. For equally indisputable is the fact of the coexistence of oral and literate features within the Homeric Epic. Thus not behaving as either a straight oral song or as a straight literate text tout court, the Homeric Epic calls into question the prevailing Parryist axiom of the oral Homer. The link between Homer and oral poetry has thus become an open question again: it is, in fact, the New Homeric Question that turns on the roles of orality and literacy in the genesis of the Homeric Epic. To clarify it this book experiments with a third term: postorality. As a postoral poet, having initially been trained as an oral bard absorbing the Hellenic oral tradition, Homer would have acquired literacy in the course of his career as an oral singer. It enabled him to widen, deepen, and refine his epic art, thereby giving rise to an epic as complex and unique, in terms of structure, characterization, and intellectual substance, as the Iliad.
Rainer Friedrich, McLeod Professor of Classics Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Canada; Visiting Professor of Classics at McGill University, Canada; Visiting Professor at Boston University, USA. Research interests: Homeric Epic, Theory & Poetics of Greek Epic, Greek Drama, Greek Drama & Polis, Comparative Drama, Ritual & Drama, Brecht’s Epic Theatre & Film, Critical Theory.
- By (author) Rainer Friedrich
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