Pindar's verbal art
Subtitle: an ethnographic study of epinician style
By: by James Bradley Wells.
Series: Hellenic studies -- 40
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674036277
Subjects: Pindar -- Technique; Laudatory poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Rhetoric, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philology as perspective on the interaction of language and social life; title: Text and sign; title: Epinician text : status and voicing; title: The oral subterfuge hypothesis; title: Epinician sómata signs; title: Epinikion as event; title: Special code; title: Figurative language; title: Parallelism; title: Special paralinguistic features; title: Special formulae; title: Appeal to tradition; title: Disclaimer of performance; title: Performance keys conclusion; title: Ways of epinician speaking I; title: Gnomic style; title: The lyric speech genre; title: Angelia, victory announcement; title: Mythological narrative; title: Ways of epinician speaking II; title: The speech plan of epinician prayers; title: Ethnographic features of epinician eukhesthai; title: Novelistic features of epinician style; title: The dialogue of registers; title: Gnomic statements; title: Direct discourse as an image of language; title: Parody in Olympian 1; title: The art of dialogism : orchestration; title: Conclusion.