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Drawing from the methods of anthropologists and folklorists, Richard Martin looks at speech in the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey', and argues for several Homeric genres of speaking.
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Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1989
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288 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1993 by Cornell University Press
- ISBN
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9780801480706
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0801480701
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English
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