Diachronic Dialogues

Diachronic Dialogues

EnglishPaperback / softback
Kahane Ahuvia
Lexington Books
EAN: 9780739111345
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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.
EAN 9780739111345
ISBN 0739111345
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Lexington Books
Publication date December 27, 2005
Pages 274
Language English
Dimensions 227 x 163 x 23
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Kahane Ahuvia
Series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches