Homeric voices: discourse, memory, gender
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199280124
- ISBN10 0199280126
- Type BOOK
- Pages 310
- Published 2007
- Bookbinding Cloth
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Greek Literature StudiesHomeric voices: discourse, memory, gender
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Homeric Voices is a study, from a compositional point of view, of the substantial speeches and exchanges of speech that Homer depicts in his songs. Drawing on research in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and cognitive psychology, Elizabeth Minchin considers the words that Homer attributes to his characters from two perspectives, as cognitive and as social phenomena. She asks how the poet worked with memory to generate the speech forms that he represents; and how
Homeric speech constructs and reveals the social hierarchies that are bound up with age, status, and gender - with particular interest in gender - in the world of the poems.