Masks of authority
fiction and pragmatics in ancient Greek poetics
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Author
Contributions
- Burk, Peter Michael, 1969- - Contributor
Publication
2005 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3295304M
- ISBN-100801438926
- OCLC Control Number56064676
- OCLC Control Numbermasksofauthority00cala
- Library of Congress Control Number2004017457
and 2 more
- LibraryThing3120756
- Goodreads3387493
Classifications
- DDC881/.0109
- LCCPA3092 .C35 2005
Description
"Exploring a variety of literary texts representing different poetic genres, Claude Calame, an internationally known classicist, draws the lineaments of a real history of the means used by ancient Greek poets to create in their works a fictional authorship. In this collection of essays, he shows that they made of their poems, through various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with the collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit in the ideas of craft and performance." "The result is a selective history of Greek poetics from the perspective of its authorial devices and social functions, its place between oral and written traditions."--Jacket.
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Series Statement
- Myth and poetics
Other Editions
- Masks of authority: fiction and pragmatics in ancient Greek poetics
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