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Diachronic Dialogues Ahuvia Kahane

Diachronic Dialogues By Ahuvia Kahane

Diachronic Dialogues by Ahuvia Kahane


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Diachronic Dialogues 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.

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Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition by Ahuvia Kahane

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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The book replaces our usual conventions and strategies of reading texts or their histories. -- Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan

About Ahuvia Kahane

Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek, University of London

Table of Contents

Chapter 0 Introduction: In Search of a Question Chapter 1 Homer and the Riddle of the Worm Chapter 2 Hidden Habits and the Trappings of Identity Chapter 3 Formal Fantasies Chapter 4 Homeric Signs Chapter 5 Intentions and Connections Chapter 6 The Order of the World Chapter 7 Conclusion: Diachronic Dialogues

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NLS9780739111345
9780739111345
0739111345
Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition by Ahuvia Kahane
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2005-12-27
274
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