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The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as seen Principally through Hesiod's "Works and Days by Harlan Berkley Peabody Jr (1929-2009) - 1975
by Harlan Berkley Peabody Jr (1929-2009)
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The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as seen Principally through Hesiod's "Works and Days
by Harlan Berkley Peabody Jr (1929-2009)
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xvi+562 pages with appendices, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with yellow lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Winged Word examines one of the most elaborate of oral compositional techniques and styles: that of the ancient Greek epos. It explains how singers like Homer and Hesiod could compose complicated verses at the speed of speech and how a singer s words could grow into compositions of massive complexity without dependence on memorization or written texts. This study shows why a singer can be more surprised than his listeners at things that take place in his own song; it explains the nature of traditional inspiration and wisdom. The Winged Word explores not only the surface, the actual texts we still possess, it sounds the depths of the tradition that lies behind them. Much of the detail in this study presents the significant results of one of the most extensive and rigorously thorough analytic examinations ever made of a single piece of connected discourse: the 828 verses of Hesiod s Works and Days; but the detailed features of the epos are not merely described, their form, use, and function are accounted for by traditional behavioral patterns. A valuable and important contribution of this book is the light that comparative work done with ancient Persian and Indic materials throws on the dynamics and interactions of traditional ways, which range in kind from incantation to heroic narrative epic, and whose practice stretched thousands of years behind Homer into the past and still continues in the backlands of Eastern Europe and in Asia to the present day. Condition: Fine in like jacket.
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- Publisher State University of New York
- Place of Publication Albany
- Date Published 1975
- Keywords GREEK LITERATURE
- Size Royal octavo
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The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally Through Hesiod's Work and Days
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State University of New York Press, 1975-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Hardcover, Stated First Edition 1975 State University of New York Press 562 pages. Very Good+ in a VG+ DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to brown cloth boards with gilt titles-one tiny bump to edge of front panel. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to un-clipped DJ-now in mylar. No previous owner marks, no notes or writing-all pages are bright, clean and crisp. Albert B. Lord of the Center for the Study of Oral Literature at Harvard University and Honorary Curator of the Parry Collection, whose role is to preserve and disseminate the oral literatures of the world, calls this book "a landmark not only in Hesiod scholarship, but also in Homeric research and in the study of oral traditional literature in general." A superior copy. ISBN- 0873950593.LOC SSS-24
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State University of New York Press, 1975. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0873950593
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