The interpretation of order
a study in the poetics of Homeric repetition
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Word Count
47,500 words, Guess
Page Count
190 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1402419M
- ISBN-100198140770
- OCLC Control Number27895876
- Library of Congress Control Number93010384
- Goodreads2052303
Classifications
- DDC883/.01
- LCCPA4206.R47 K34 1994
Description
This is an exciting and original study of 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 lay 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 repetition in the Odyssey
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- Oxford classical monographs
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