Poetry in Performance The Audience Expects
Penelope and Odysseus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20051157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian Kelly (0000-0002-5053-7397, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004217751_002 |
| OpenAlex | W2921777088 |
| ISBN | 9789004217751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The relationship between composition and performance lies at heart of Homeric poetics, for scholars have long understood that moment of performance is crucial for generation, indeed realisation, of early Greek oral traditional epic. This chapter focuses on relationship between terms 'composition' and 'performance' - usually, for Homerists, enshrined in phrase 'recomposition in performance'. It then examines scene between Penelope and Odysseus in Odyssey 23 , partly because Aristotle famously characterised entire poem as complex on grounds that it contains recognition throughout, but mostly because this example is, as Norman Austin saw, the great scene of poem. Keywords:Homer; Odysseus; Odyssey 23 ; Penelope
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2018 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |