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Oral Palimpsest

Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics

Christos Tsagalis

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Published in : United States, 20 March 2008

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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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Product Details

ISBN :	067402687X
EAN (ISBN-13) :	9780674026872
Author :	Christos Tsagalis
Publisher :	Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Country of Publication :	United States
Imprint :	Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Series :	Hellenic Studies
Audience :	Professional & Vocational
Number of pages :	400
Illustrations :	Illustrations
Product weight :	526 g.
Product Dimensions :	159 x 235 mm
Usually arrives within :	6-13 days

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Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth. This title 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.

About the Author

Christos Tsagalis is Assistant Professor in the Classics, University of Athens.

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