Author: Ronald J. J. Blankenborg
Publisher: Hellenic Studies Series
ISBN: 9780674237957
Category : Caesura in versification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a performative aspect of delivery, arguing for the possibilities and limits of expressing phrases in performance. Ronald Blankenborg's analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different options for performative pause--a phonetic phenomenon evidenced by phonology. From the ubiquitous compositional pauses in sense and metrical surface structure, Audible Punctuation selects the pauses that, under specific phonetic circumstances, double as rests of some duration during a performance. In this way, Blankenborg identifies those places in the verses that a performer of Homeric poetry was most likely to have used as opportunities to pause. The distribution of pauses over Homer's hexameters proves to be irregular and unpredictable because phonological phrases and grammatical clauses differ considerably in the way they terminate. The mismatch of prosodic and other levels of phrasing draws attention to the need to reassess stylistic issues, notably enjambment.
Audible Punctuation
Author: Ronald J. J. Blankenborg
Publisher: Hellenic Studies Series
ISBN: 9780674237957
Category : Caesura in versification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a performative aspect of delivery, arguing for the possibilities and limits of expressing phrases in performance. Ronald Blankenborg's analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different options for performative pause--a phonetic phenomenon evidenced by phonology. From the ubiquitous compositional pauses in sense and metrical surface structure, Audible Punctuation selects the pauses that, under specific phonetic circumstances, double as rests of some duration during a performance. In this way, Blankenborg identifies those places in the verses that a performer of Homeric poetry was most likely to have used as opportunities to pause. The distribution of pauses over Homer's hexameters proves to be irregular and unpredictable because phonological phrases and grammatical clauses differ considerably in the way they terminate. The mismatch of prosodic and other levels of phrasing draws attention to the need to reassess stylistic issues, notably enjambment.
Publisher: Hellenic Studies Series
ISBN: 9780674237957
Category : Caesura in versification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a performative aspect of delivery, arguing for the possibilities and limits of expressing phrases in performance. Ronald Blankenborg's analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different options for performative pause--a phonetic phenomenon evidenced by phonology. From the ubiquitous compositional pauses in sense and metrical surface structure, Audible Punctuation selects the pauses that, under specific phonetic circumstances, double as rests of some duration during a performance. In this way, Blankenborg identifies those places in the verses that a performer of Homeric poetry was most likely to have used as opportunities to pause. The distribution of pauses over Homer's hexameters proves to be irregular and unpredictable because phonological phrases and grammatical clauses differ considerably in the way they terminate. The mismatch of prosodic and other levels of phrasing draws attention to the need to reassess stylistic issues, notably enjambment.
Audible Punctuation: Performative Pause in Homeric Prosody
One Man Show
Author: Katherine Kretler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674980020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Katherine Kretler plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page? The book focuses on the performer not as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories, bringing suppressed voices to the surface.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674980020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Katherine Kretler plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page? The book focuses on the performer not as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories, bringing suppressed voices to the surface.
Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Efi Papadodima
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon
Author: Phyllis Weliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107184800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107184800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.
Books and Bookmen
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Homeric Conversation
Author: Deborah Beck
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674019621
Category : Conversation in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside other types such as arrival, sacrifice and battle. She draws on linguitic work and oral aesthetics to describe typical conversational patterns that characterise a range of situations.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674019621
Category : Conversation in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside other types such as arrival, sacrifice and battle. She draws on linguitic work and oral aesthetics to describe typical conversational patterns that characterise a range of situations.
Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe
Author: Susan Rankin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108381782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West. This comprehensive study investigates the breadth of use of musical notation in Carolingian Europe, including many examples previously unknown in studies of notation, to deliver a crucial foundational model for the understanding of later Western notations. An overview of the study of neumatic notations from the French monastic scholar Dom Jean Mabillon (1632–1707) up to the present day precedes an examination of the function and potential of writing in support of a musical practice which continued to depend on trained memory. Later chapters examine passages of notation to reveal those ways in which scripts were shaped by contemporary rationalizations of musical sound. Finally, the new scripts are situated in the cultural and social contexts in which they emerged.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108381782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West. This comprehensive study investigates the breadth of use of musical notation in Carolingian Europe, including many examples previously unknown in studies of notation, to deliver a crucial foundational model for the understanding of later Western notations. An overview of the study of neumatic notations from the French monastic scholar Dom Jean Mabillon (1632–1707) up to the present day precedes an examination of the function and potential of writing in support of a musical practice which continued to depend on trained memory. Later chapters examine passages of notation to reveal those ways in which scripts were shaped by contemporary rationalizations of musical sound. Finally, the new scripts are situated in the cultural and social contexts in which they emerged.
Phonology in Context
Author: M. Pennington
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625398
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Phonology in Context takes a fresh look at phonology in a range of real-world contexts that go beyond traditional concerns and challenge existing assumptions and practices. It brings together research and theory from a range of research areas to suggest new directions for the field.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625398
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Phonology in Context takes a fresh look at phonology in a range of real-world contexts that go beyond traditional concerns and challenge existing assumptions and practices. It brings together research and theory from a range of research areas to suggest new directions for the field.
Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium
Author: Ivan Drpić
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107151511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107151511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.