Out of Line: Homeric Composition Beyond the Hexameter (Greek Studies) - Softcover

Clark, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847686981 ISBN 13: 9780847686988

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Out of Line presents a new theory of Homeric composition, focusing on patterns that extend beyond the boundary of the line and the clause. Matthew Clark takes enjambment as a starting point, analyzing the techniques used by the poet to complete a line that begins with a runover. He then proposes two levels of analysis: a "deep-structure" level, which describes the associations of words and ideas before they take metrical form, and a "surface-structure" level, which describes the words as they are employed on any particular occasion. Out of Line combines formulaic and metrical analysis, expanding the study of Homeric meter both in practice, by taking into account larger compositional structures such as entire scenes, and in theory, by using the result to test models of formulaic composition. This book is important for students and scholars of Homer and of epic and oral literature.

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Matthew Clark is Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at York University. His scholarly articles have appeared in Phoenix; he is also the author of numerous works of fiction and verse.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0847686981
• ISBN 13: 9780847686988
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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