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The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus

Abstract:

The relationship between composition and performance lies at the heart of Homeric poetics, for scholars have long understood that the moment of performance is crucial for the generation, indeed realisation, of early Greek oral traditional epic. This paper proposes to analyse the recognition sequence(s) between Odysseus and Penelope in Odyssey 23 from this perspective, arguing that the episode can only fully be understood by recapturing the narrative’s performative strategies: that is, thos...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1163/9789004217751_002

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
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Author

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Publisher:
Brill Publisher's website
Host title:
Orality, Literacy, and Performance in the Ancient World
Series:
Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World
Volume:
9
Pages:
3-24
Publication date:
2011-12-09
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ISSN:
0169-8958
ISBN:
9789004217744
Pubs id:
pubs:199574
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uuid:071af68b-0fa9-4895-b3e1-4cf602c84ffe
Local pid:
pubs:199574
Source identifiers:
199574
Deposit date:
2015-10-07

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