Textual Events
Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2018
- ISBN 9780198805823
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 223x148x27 mm
- Weight 538 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In exploring the idea of lyric performances as 'textual events', this volume marks a departure from interpretations of Greek lyric as socio-political discourse. Building on the renewed concern with the aesthetic, it studies poetic effects that cannot be captured in terms of function alone and re-examines the relationship between form and context.
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Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume places its focus elsewhere, and attempts to illuminate poetic effects that cannot be captured in functional terms alone. Employing a range of interpretative methods, it explores the idea of lyric performances as 'textual events'. Some chapters investigate the pragmatic relationship between real performance contexts and imaginative settings, while others consider how lyric poems position themselves in relation to earlier texts and textual traditions, or discuss the distinctive encounters lyric poems create between listeners, authors, and performers. Individual lyric texts and authors, such as Sappho, Alcaeus, and Pindar, are analysed in detail, alongside treatments of the relationship between lyric and the Homeric Hymns.
Building on the renewed concern with the aesthetic in the study of Greek lyric and beyond, Textual Events aims to re-examine the relationship between the poems' formal features and their historical contexts. Lyric poems are a type of socio-political discourse, but they are also objects of attention in themselves. They enable reflection on social and ritual practices as much as they are embedded within them. As well as expressing cultural norms, lyric challenges listeners to think about and experience the world afresh.
[I] was impressed with the clarity and utility of the concept of textual events editors Budelmann and Phillips present ... [this book] offers its readers a cautious methodological synthesis with an astonishing degree of flex and sway ... form[s] an impressive and clarion whole.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
I: Occasionality
Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Lyric: The Case of Sappho
Sailing and Singing: Alcaeus at Sea
Materialities of Political Commitment? Textual Events, Material Culture, and Metaliterarity in Alcaeus
What is a Setting?
II: Conceptual Contexts
Sappho and Cyborg Helen
Event and Artefact: The Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Archaic Lyric, and Early Greek Literary History
Hermetically Unsealed: Lyric Genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Polyphony, Event, Context: Pindar, Paean 9
III: Lyric Encounters
Echo and the Invention of the Lyric Listener
Lyric Minds
Fidelity and Farewell: Pindar's Ethics as Textual Events
Endmatter
Works Cited
Index
