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Chargement... One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the Iliad and Odysseypar Katherine Kretler
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Katherine Kretler’s One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the Iliad and Odyssey explores how ancient performers of Homeric epic also layered characters, settings, and stories onto the imagined reality of the narrative or physical space of the audience. Like modern technologies of augmented and virtual reality, when a performer apostrophizes Patroklos (Iliad 16) or Eumaios (Odyssey 14), blurs boundaries between direct and reported address in Phoenix’s speech (Iliad 9), or embodies Diomedes in aristeia through a gesture (Iliad 5) “as though a surgeon has…slipped his hand into a virtual reality glove” (65), Kretler argues that Homer exploits the dramatic potential of performance to invoke the presence of others. One Man Show provides a stimulating if at times dizzying pursuit of this “play of presence among bard, audience, and characters… [and its] variety of effects in performance” (21). The study will be of benefit especially to advanced students and scholars interested in its treatment of individual passages and the multilayered experience of Homeric poems. Appartient à la série éditorialeHellenic Studies (78)
"This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page? Readers may be readily impressed by the vividness of the poems, but they may miss out on the strange presence or uncanniness that the performer evoked in ancient audience members such as Plato and Aristotle. This book focuses on the performer not simply as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories and presences, who brings suppressed voices to the surface. Performance is inextricable from all aspects of the poems, from image to structure to background story. Background stories previously neglected, even in some of the most familiar passages (such as Phoenix's speech in Iliad 9) are brought to the surface, and passages readers tend to rush through (such as Odysseus's encounter with Eumaeus) are shown to have some of the richest dramatic potential. Attending to performance enlivens isolated features in a given passage by showing how they work together"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)883.01Literature Greek and other Classical languages Prose and Fiction, Classical Greek Pseudo-CallisthenesClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: Pas d'évaluation.Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |