Coarse Poetics
Listening to Hipponax
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23213320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Boedeker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 56-73 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Iambus and Elegy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689743.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2490473312 |
| ISBN | 9780199689743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Hipponax has traditionally been categorized as a coarse and vitriolic author. Some recent interpreters, however, argue plausibly that the speaker in the poems, who is sometimes explicitly identified as 'Hipponax', should be seen as a deliberately constructed character quite separate from the poet. Beginning with that insight, this chapter examines some basic aural and verbal techniques that are used to characterize the speaker. These include 'clumsy' prosody (choliambic and even ischiorrhogic trimeters as well as other metrical 'errors' and inconsistencies), outrageously obscene anecdotes and vocabulary (including neologisms), slurred pronunciation (e.g. a high rate of correption and synecphronesis), use of non-Greek words, and egregious 'mistakes' in invoking gods. The chapter concludes by discussing whether the intratextual narrator 'Hipponax' is presented as aware of his own base and ridiculous nature or oblivious to it.
Active listening · Art · Character (mathematics) · Linguistics · Literature · Neologism · Poetics · Poetry · Pronunciation · Prosody · Ridiculous · Sentence · Vocabulary · Communication · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |