The Oral Palimpsest PDF book is popular History book written by Christos Tsagalis. The book was released by Harvard University Press on 2008 with total hardcover pages 362. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Oral Palimpsest by Christos Tsagalis in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Tsagalis argues that just as the discarded text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of
The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has m
With an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics and a discussion on the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity, thi
Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characte
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written ove