Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy

Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Performing Arts, Theory; Etc, Epic Poetry; Greek - Criticism; Textual, Oral Interpretation of Poetry, History and Criticism, Oral Tradition, Oral Tradition - Greece - History - to 1500, General, Homer - Criticism; Textual, Criticism; Textual, Homer - Technique, To 1500, Oral Interpretation of Poetry - History - to 1500, Epic Poetry; Greek - History and Criticism - Theory; Etc, Oral-Formulaic Analysis, Epic Poetry; Greek, Performing Arts - Greece - History - to 1500, Transmission of Texts, History
ISBN: 9780521558488
Google: 6GCHXNMeHMoC
Amazon: 0521558484
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

[ back ] 1. Cf. GM 29: “the language of a body of oral poetry like the Iliad and Odyssey does not and cannot belong to any one time, any one place: in a word, it defies synchronic analysis.” Cf. di Luzio 1969:11, where he refers to the “diachronic” nature of oral epic composition; cf. D’Ippolito 1984. In my own work, the terms synchronic / diachronic refer not to the internal standpoint of any given structure but only to the external standpoint of one who analyzes that structure (cf. PH 4). Thus it is preferable to say that the analysis of oral composition requires the simultaneous application of synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and that the absence of either of these perspectives can lead to a warped analysis. Aldo di Luzio offers a comparable formulation that appears toward the end of his work, p. 138. {He cites Pagliaro on Dante; in an earlier context, p. 13, he cites Pagliaro Saggi pp. xii ff. and Nuovi saggi pp. 381-408.}

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