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- Title Homer and the Oral Tradition
- Author G. S. Kirk
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 231
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1976
- ISBN 9780521213097 / 0521213096
- Library of Congress subjects Rhetoric, Ancient, Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76007806
- Dewey Decimal Code 883.01
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Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0521213096 . Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has some edgewear and rubbing with a couple of tears. DJ spine sunned with faint yellowing to back panel. ; 231 pages; The Songs of Homer (Cambridge University Press, 1962) was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems. In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different. He considers in particular the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition. There are problems here of interest not only to classicists and Homeric specialists but also to students of English and comparative literature, and to anthropologists concerned with the literature of traditional societies. Those pieces that were previously published were revised and unified for the volume. The longest section, on 'the oral and the…
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Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0521213096 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Dustjacket rubbed. DJ spine sunned. ; 231 pages; The Songs of Homer (Cambridge University Press, 1962) was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems. In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different. He considers in particular the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition. There are problems here of interest not only to classicists and Homeric specialists but also to students of English and comparative literature, and to anthropologists concerned with the literature of traditional societies. Those pieces that were previously published were revised and unified for the volume. The longest section, on 'the oral and the literary…
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