The Oral Palimpsest

Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics

By:

Christos Tsagalis

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Hellenic Studies Series

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

January 1st, 2008

Author

Christos Tsagalis

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

None

Pages

326

Series

Hellenic Studies Series

Dimensions

156x227x21

ISBN-13

9780674026872

Product ID

2425474

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