Earlier, I think, Pietro wrote about the repetition and formulaic phrases in Homer and whether those indicate oral tradition as the source for the texts. I ran into some theories about Homer and oral vs. written while writing another paper (which involved medieval literacy / oral culture) because I was told to look at the work of A. Lord to […]
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Published by Sophie October 4th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Oral Performance and Homeric Question. 2 CommentsOdysseus and Nausicaa
Published by Sophie September 13th, 2006 in Uncategorized and Odysseus. 0 CommentsOur discussion of Odysseus and Nausicaa reminded me of this poem by Derek Walcott. It’s about the only thing of his I’ve read, but I am told he often deals with classical themes from his perspective, growing up and living in the (colonized-by-Europeans) Caribbean.
I thought the use of Nausicaa to represent the lure of Odysseus’s […]
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