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Homer and the Poetics of Gesture (Paperback)
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Homer and the Poetics of Gesture (Paperback)
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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.
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