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Traditional Elegy - The Interplay of Meter, Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Traditional Elegy - The Interplay of Meter, Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry (Hardcover, New)
Series: Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
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Though often assumed by scholars to be a product of traditional,
and perhaps oral, compositional practices comparable to those found
in early Greek epic, archaic elegy has not until this point been
analyzed in similar detail with respect to such verse-making
techniques. This volume is intended to redress some of this
imbalance by exploring several issues related to the production of
Greek elegiac poetry. By investigating elegy's metrical
partitioning and its localizing patterns of repeated phraseology,
Traditional Elegy makes clear that the oral-formulaic processes
lying at the heart of Homeric epic bear close resemblance to those
that also originally made archaic elegy possible. However, the
volume's argument is then able to be pressed even further by
looking at the most common metrical "anomaly" in early elegy-epic
correption-in order to demonstrate that elegiac poets in the
Archaic Period were not simply mimicking an earlier productive
style but were actively engaging with such traditional techniques
in order to produce and reproduce their own poems. Because
correption exhibits several patterns of employment that depend upon
the meshing and adapting of traditional phraseological units, it
becomes clear that in elegy--just as it is in epic--this metrical
phenomenon is inextricably entwined with traditional techniques of
verse-composition, and we therefore have strong evidence that
elegiac poets of the Archaic Period were still making active use of
these oral-formulaic techniques, even if actual oral composition
itself cannot be proven for any individual author or poetic
fragment. The implications of such findings are quite large, as
they require a wholesale shift in our modern methods of inquiry
into elegy for a wide range of concerns of meter, phraseology, and
even the much broader issues of intended meaning and overall
aesthetics.
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