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Exploring A Variety Of Literary Texts Representing Different Poetic Genres, Claude Calame, An Internationally Known Classicist, Draws The Lineaments Of A Real History Of The Means Used By Ancient Greek Poets To Create In Their Works A Fictional Authorship. In This Collection Of Essays, He Shows That They Made Of Their Poems, Through Various Discursive Strategies, Texts To Be Performed, With The Collective, Ritual, And Pragmatic Values Implicit In The Ideas Of Craft And Performance. The Result Is A Selective History Of Greek Poetics From The Perspective Of Its Authorial Devices And Social Functions, Its Place Between Oral And Written Traditions.--jacket. Enunciative Games And Masks Of Poetic Authority -- 1: Poems As Performative Discourses In Action -- Relationships With The Gods And Poetic Functions In The Homeric Hymns -- Prelude To A Poetry Of Action: The Proem Of Hesiod's Works And Days -- Fiction As Narrative Argumentation: Sappho And Helen -- Legendary Narration And Poetic: Procedure In Callimachus' Hymn To Apollo -- 2: Gazes Of Authority -- Learning To Drink, Learning To Sing: Poetic And Iconic Speech In The Symposium -- Vision, Blindness, And Mask: Enunciation And Emotion In

Author

Claude Calame

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801438929

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities