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The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- 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
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0169-8958
- ISBN:
- 9789004217744
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:199574
- UUID:
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uuid:071af68b-0fa9-4895-b3e1-4cf602c84ffe
- Local pid:
- pubs:199574
- Source identifiers:
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199574
- Deposit date:
- 2015-10-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Koninklijke Brill NV
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Rights statement:
- Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Notes:
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Main Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume 335
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