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Diachronic Dialogues - Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition (Hardcover)
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Diachronic Dialogues - Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition (Hardcover)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the
Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of
Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the
heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula. This
book makes the case for performative, rather than essential values
in the Illiad and the Odyssey. On the one hand performativity
allows Homeric epic form to enact diverse claims and agendas in
specific historical, cultural, and political contexts. On the other
hand, the performative character of Homer's values implies radical
resistance to fixity of reference, forms of meaning, and
patterning, etc. No individual performers or group of historical
interpreters can thus claim exclusive authority over the song and
its contents i.e. over its truth, knowledge, social codes, its
diction, authorship, etc. The interaction of diversity and radical
resistance marks the traditional and canonical icon we call
"Homeric epic." It is a shared record of many pasts open to all but
exclusive to none. Performativity may be a general quality of all
poetic discourse, or indeed of language itself. Nevertheless, this
study suggests that in historical terms Homeric poetry has been,
and perhaps still is, one of the most prominent sites for
exercising tradition and claims of cultural continuity. Diachronic
Dialogues is an essential addition to scholarship in literary
criticism and the classics.
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