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Homer as an Oral Tradition
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The Homerist's idea of an oral tradition is necessarily different from that of the students of a living oral tradition. Homer is a text and Homeric orality is a matter of philology. Homerists' notions of oral tradition will thus be mediated by textuality, and Homer's orality can only be accessed through those features that survive the song's transcription.
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“temporal deixis tends to be centered on the performer's 'now.'”
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“the Homeric tradition at any rate does not seem to create the illusion (frequent in written narrative) that the tale's reality is observed and experienced 'on the spot,' in the past of the epic action.”
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Poetry in speech: orality and Homeric discourse
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Self-citationJanko, R. (1998) · The Journal of Hellenic Studies · doi:10.2307/632248 · Cited by 167
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Self-citation1. Storytelling in the Future: Truth, Time, and Tense in Homeric Epic
Bakker, E. J. (1997) · Harvard University Press eBooks · doi:10.4159/9780674020467-003 · Cited by 33
Self-citationHomeric ΟΥΤΟΣ and the Poetics of Deixis
Bakker, E. J. (1999) · Classical Philology · doi:10.1086/449413 · Cited by 9
Self-citationGregory Nagy, Poetry as Performance. Homer and beyond
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“Oral` tradition is still one of the` most preferred and trusted sources of knowledge, because the tradition itself is oral and performed repeatedly [22].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bakker, E. J.
- Corresponding author
- Bakker, Egbert J
- Venue
- Oral Tradition
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 52-54
- ISSN
- 0883-5365 (ISSN-L)
- 1542-4308
- OpenAlex
- W2115088230
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Oral tradition (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- MOspace Institutional Repository (University of Missouri) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Keywords
- Homer, Homeric epic, textual transmission, philology, oral poetry, Homeric scholarship
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