The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (Hellenic Studies): 29 (Hellenic Studies Series) - Softcover

Christos Tsagalis

 
9780674026872: The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (Hellenic Studies): 29 (Hellenic Studies Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 067402687X ISBN 13: 9780674026872
Publisher: Harvard UP, 2008

Synopsis

Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to an entire horizon of diverse variants of a story. The Oral Palimpsest argues that just as the erased text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternative versions in the act of producing the signs of their erasure.

In this light, "Homer" reflects the concerted effort to create a Panhellenic canon of epic song, through which we can still retrieve the poikilia (roughly, "dappled, embroidered variation") of various interwoven fabrics belonging to recognizable song-traditions or even older Indo-European strata.

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About the Author

Christos Tsagalis is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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Publisher
Harvard UP
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
067402687X
ISBN 13 
9780674026872
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400