an ethnographic study of epinician style
Edición de la obra Pindar's verbal art
| Autor | James Bradley Wells |
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| Editorial | Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, Distributed by Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009 |
| Lugar | Washington, DC, Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 266 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780674036277 |
| ISBN-10 | 0674036271 |
| OCLC | 319493068 |
| LCCN | 2009047742 |
| Serie |
| Hellenic studies -- 40 · Hellenic studies -- 40. |
| Número de Cutter | W454p |
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"In Pindar's Verbal Art, Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar's language that applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. In Mikhail Bakhtin's terms, Pindar's Verbal Art is a sociological stylistics of epinician language and demonstrates that Pindar's is a highly dialogical form of art, an intertextual web of voices, whose study enables us to appreciate popular dimensions of his songs. Wells offers a new take on recurrent Pindaric questions: genre, the unity of the victory song, tradition, and, principally, epinician performance."--Jacket.