Homer's Winged Words
Title | Homer's Winged Words PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Reece |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 429 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004174419 |
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer s 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry s oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another. The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our Homeric texts.
Homer's Winged Words
Title | Homer's Winged Words PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Reece |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 2009-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9047427874 |
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer’s 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry’s oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period of oral transmission acoustic uncertainties, especially regarding word boundaries, were continually occurring: a bard uttered one collocation of words, but his audience thought it heard another. The consequent resegmentation of words and phrases is the probable cause of some of the etymologically inexplicable words in our Homeric texts.
The Winged Word
Title | The Winged Word PDF eBook |
Author | Berkley Peabody |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Grec (Langue) - Stylistique |
ISBN | 9780873951593 |
The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad
Title | The Twenty-second Book of the Iliad PDF eBook |
Author | Homer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN |
Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning
Title | Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas T. Zanker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 20?? |
Genre | Greek language |
ISBN | 9782821897106 |
Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb “to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker argues for the role of metaphorical and metonymical transference in the creation of expressions of meaning; Greek and Roman authors used the same verbs to describe what inanimate things, including words and texts, meant/signified as they did of human beings in the act of meaning/signifying something. In the second part of the book, the author focuses on certain metaphorical extensions of this vocabulary and argues that they have implications for modern discussions of meaning, particularly in literary criticism.
The Iliad of Homer
Title | The Iliad of Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Homer |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2022-06-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3375039131 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.
Memorial
Title | Memorial PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Oswald |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Battle casualties |
ISBN | 9780571274185 |
The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year. James Wood, The New Yorker