TY  - GEN
T1  - Markers of allusion in archaic Greek poetry
T2  - Cambridge classical studies.
A1  - Nelson, Thomas J., 1991-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009086882
AB  - Challenging many established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries BCE) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions - placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the 'Easter eggs' of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such signposting has often been considered the preserve of later literary cultures, closely linked with the development of libraries, literacy and writing. In this wide-ranging new study, Thomas Nelson shows that these devices were already deeply ingrained in oral archaic Greek poetry, deconstructing the artificial boundary between a supposedly 'primal' archaic literature and a supposedly 'sophisticated' book culture of Hellenistic Alexandria and Rome. In three interlocking case studies, he highlights how poets from Homer to Pindar employed the language of hearsay, memory and time to index their allusive relationships, as they variously embraced, reworked and challenged their inherited tradition.
OP  - 441
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 May 2023).
CN  - PA3095 .N45 2023
SN  - 9781009086882 (ebook)
SN  - 9781316514375 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009078191 (paperback)
SN  - 9781316514375
KW  - Greek poetry : History and criticism.
KW  - Allusions in literature.
KW  - Intertextuality.
ER  -