The interpretation of order : a study in the poetics of Homeric repetition
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The interpretation of order : a study in the poetics of Homeric repetition
(Oxford classical monographs)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1994
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Oxford
Bibliography: p. [167]-176
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Description
This is an exciting and original study on the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a "meaning" that extends beyond their immediate context. This meaning often interacts with context-specific semantic features, creating a discourse that is replete with ambiguity, ambivalence, irony, and allusion. The discussion draws on
recent approaches in linguistics and literary criticism, including narratology, pragmatics, socio-linguistics, discourse analysis, and speech-act theory, but lays emphasis on the primary text as an object of study. The author shows how Homer's polysemic texture contributes to the presentation of key
literary topics such as the image of the hero in the Iliad or disguise and recognition in the Odyssey.
Table of Contents
- Patterns and verse-making technique
- metrical units and sense-units
- accusative theme-word patterns
- patterns of the proper-name vocative
- patterns of the proper-name nominative. Appendices: collated localization data
- position and reference of theme-words
- localization of proper-name vocatives
- approaches to apostrophe
- localization of proper-name nominatives.
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