The winged word
Subtitle: a study in the technique of ancient Greek oral composition as seen principally through Hesiod's Works and days
By: Berkley Peabody.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 562
Subjects: Hesiod; Hesiod -- Technique; Oral-formulaic analysis; Greek language -- Style; Oral tradition -- Greece; Rhetoric, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Oral theory and the epos. Oral theory and its tests -- Problems of oral theory for the epos -- The method of the winged word. The works and days as an exemplar text -- Comparison as a tool for diachronic analysis -- Form versus language. The classical description of the hexameter -- Problems of classical description for oral theory -- Form as language. Evolutionary metrics -- Comparative and phonological metrics -- Ancient Indo-European metrics. The relating of Iranian, Indian, and Greek meters -- Quantity and syllable count -- The repetition of utterance -- The metrical tradition -- Avestan metrics -- Indian metrics -- Vedic meters -- Classical Sanskrit meters -- The hexameter. The period of count and sense -- Primary and secondary combinations -- Caesuras -- Syllabic features -- Quantity and syllabic coalescence -- The contraction of form -- Meter as the shape of traditional utterance -- Forms in the hexameter. The system of cola -- The usages of lexical elements -- Formal accommodations. Colonic composition -- Colonic adjustment. Couplet verses -- Triplet verses -- Five-colon verses -- Colonic transfer -- Formulas in the epos. The structure of formulas -- One-colon formulas -- Longer formulas -- Final set phrases -- Function of formulas -- The syntax of formulas -- Utterance periods. The sentence -- The relationship between clause and stanza -- Enjambment. Enjambment within the verse -- Coordination -- Assimilation -- Integration -- Enjambment between verses. Assimilation -- Integration -- The enjambment test -- Stanzaic patterns. Haploid structure -- Separable verses -- Separable couplets -- Diploid structure. Generative conditions -- Features of diploid periods -- Diploid compositional motion -- Functional and semantic aspects of the haploid-diploid mix. Traditional wisdom. The location of thought -- Intention and meaning -- The substance of thought -- The organization of thought -- Varied repetition. Unessential extensions and semantic cumulation -- Signs of redundancy -- Responsions -- Rhetorical features -- The continuity of thought. Lost information -- Thematic expansion and development -- The fable -- The raft building -- Narrative as superstructure. Linguistic evidence -- Comparative evidence -- The separation of song from theme -- The nature of song. Song and memory -- The presence of song -- The confusion of discourse factors -- The transformations of song and theme -- The isolation of song -- Song features. Dominance, the catalogue, and phantasmagoria -- Accident, correction, and retrogression -- The loss and recall of song -- Song and meaning. Semantic decorum and levels of semantic specificity : W&D 11—26 -- The illusion of remembered songs : W&D 27-105 -- The analytic determination of meaning -- The stanza : W&D 106-201 -- The paragraph : W&D 202—212 -- The principal section. Song and the thematic web : W&D 213-273 -- Massive expansion and development : W&D 274-828 -- The function of principal patterns. The controlling theme : W&D 1-10 -- The primary song form.