Homer and the Poetics of Gesture - Alex C. Purves

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture

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Buch | Hardcover
232 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-085792-9 (ISBN)
102,25 inkl. MwSt
This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.
Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including movement theory, dance studies, phenomenology, and early film, it suggests new approaches for interpreting the relationship between repetition and embodiment in Homer. Through a series of dynamic close readings, Purves argues that the deep-seated habits and gestures of epic bodies are instrumental to our understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey, especially insofar as they attune us to the kinetic structures and sensibilities that shape the meaning of the poems.

Each of the chapters isolates a scene in which a specific action, posture, or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and reaching) emerges from the background of its other iterations in order to make larger claims about its poetic significance within the epics as a whole. Beginning from the premise that gestures are shared between characters and often identically repeated within the poems' formulaic system, the book reconsiders long-standing arguments about Homeric agency and character by focusing on those moments when a gesture diverges from its expected course, redirecting the plot or drawing the poem in new and surprising directions. Homer and the Poetics of Gesture not only affords new insights into the nature of epic repetition and poetic originality but also reveals unnoticed connections between Homeric structure and technique and the embodied habits and movements of the characters within the poems.

Alex Purves is Professor of Classics at UCLA. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative and the editor of Synaesthesia of the Ancient Senses (with Shane Butler) and Touch and the Ancient Senses. She has also written several articles on Homer and archaic Greek poetry.

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Falling
2. Running
3. Leaping
4. Standing
5. Reaching
6. Conclusion
7. Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 18
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 239 x 155 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-085792-7 / 0190857927
ISBN-13 978-0-19-085792-9 / 9780190857929
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