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One man show : poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
- Title
- One man show : poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey / by Katherine Kretler.
- Author
- Kretler, Katherine
- Publication
- Washington DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2020.
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-5019 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 384 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page? Readers may be readily impressed by the vividness of the poems, but they may miss out on the strange presence or uncanniness that the performer evoked in ancient audience members such as Plato and Aristotle. This book focuses on the performer not simply as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories and presences, who brings suppressed voices to the surface. Performance is inextricable from all aspects of the poems, from image to structure to background story. Background stories previously neglected, even in some of the most familiar passages (such as Phoenix's speech in Iliad 9) are brought to the surface, and passages readers tend to rush through (such as Odysseus's encounter with Eumaeus) are shown to have some of the richest dramatic potential. Attending to performance enlivens isolated features in a given passage by showing how they work together"--
- Series Statement
- Hellenic studies ; 78
- Uniform Title
- Hellenic studies ; 78.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-369) and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5019
- ISBN
- 9780674980020
- 0674980026
- LCCN
- 2019021509
- OCLC
- 1107804096
- Author
- Kretler, Katherine, author.
- Title
- One man show : poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey / by Katherine Kretler.
- Publisher
- Washington DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Hellenic studies ; 78Hellenic studies ; 78.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-369) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5019