TY  - BOOK
N2  - For more than two millennia, Homer's poetry has stirred the imagination of its readers. Originally recited by traveling bards, these poems are exceptionally rich in conventional elements that helped the poets remember works thousands of lines long. As dynamic ingredients of oral poetry, these elements have accrued deep meaning, and for a well-informed audience they call significant associations to mind. In The Stranger's Welcome, Steve Reece treats eighteen "hospitality" scenes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns and reveals key aspects and standard elements of such scenes. Further, he demonstrates how Homeric listeners might comprehend the new and innovative by relying on their knowledge of the conventional and familiar. This tension between conventional and innovative, between the traditional background and the individual performance, distinguishes the aesthetics of Homeric poetry. Of interest to students and scholars of oral poetry, folklore, Homeric literature, and Greek literature in general, The Stranger's Welcome offers a practical approach whereby a reading audience may understand a hearing one.
AB  - For more than two millennia, Homer's poetry has stirred the imagination of its readers. Originally recited by traveling bards, these poems are exceptionally rich in conventional elements that helped the poets remember works thousands of lines long. As dynamic ingredients of oral poetry, these elements have accrued deep meaning, and for a well-informed audience they call significant associations to mind. In The Stranger's Welcome, Steve Reece treats eighteen "hospitality" scenes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns and reveals key aspects and standard elements of such scenes. Further, he demonstrates how Homeric listeners might comprehend the new and innovative by relying on their knowledge of the conventional and familiar. This tension between conventional and innovative, between the traditional background and the individual performance, distinguishes the aesthetics of Homeric poetry. Of interest to students and scholars of oral poetry, folklore, Homeric literature, and Greek literature in general, The Stranger's Welcome offers a practical approach whereby a reading audience may understand a hearing one.
T1  - The stranger's welcome :oral theory and the aesthetics of the Homeric hospitality scene /
DA  - ©1993.
CY  - Ann Arbor :
AU  - Reece, Steve,
CN  - PA4037
CN  - PA4037
PB  - University of Michigan Press,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - ©1993.
ID  - 1381179
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - Hospitality in literature.
KW  - Outsiders in literature.
KW  - Oral-formulaic analysis.
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Aesthetics, Ancient.
KW  - Poésie épique grecque
KW  - Hospitalité dans la littérature.
KW  - Marginaux dans la littérature.
KW  - Analyse des formules orales.
KW  - Tradition orale
KW  - Esthétique ancienne.
KW  - Aesthetics, Ancient.
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek.
KW  - Hospitality in literature.
KW  - Oral-formulaic analysis.
KW  - Oral tradition.
KW  - Outsiders in literature.
KW  - Gastvrijheid.
KW  - Hospitality in literature.
KW  - Outsiders in literature.
SN  - 0472103865
SN  - 9780472103867
TI  - The stranger's welcome :oral theory and the aesthetics of the Homeric hospitality scene /
ER  -