Leaving Words to Remember - 9789004117501
Un libro in lingua di Katharine Derderian edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2000
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Recent scholarship questions the orality-literacy polarity in Homeric studies. In this revised version of her dissertation in classical philology (Princeton U., 1998), Derderian analyzes the nonlinear influence of literacy on the development of genres of mourning in ancient Greece including grave epigrams, tragedy, and Athenian epitaphioi . Taking the oral tradition of lament in the Homeric poems as her point of departure, the author studies interrelationships between individual-collective and passive-reactive death rituals; parses the semantics and heroic milieu of written texts commemorating warriors in the archaic and classical periods; and through case studies, traces the evolution of the written memorial into a medium of civic history. Indexed by general subject and Greek terms. The author is currently a political activist in Berlin. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Leaving Words to Remember
- Sottotitolo: Greek Mourning and the Advent of Literacy
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Katharine Derderian
- Editore: Brill Academic Pub
- Collana: Brill Academic Pub (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Ottobre '00
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Greek literature History and criticism Death in literature Funeral rites and ceremonies Greece
- Pagine: 206
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 9004117504
- EAN-13: 9789004117501