Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text (Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia) PDF
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x CEN TER F OR HEL L ENI C S TUDI ES COL L OQUI A Written Voices, Spoken Signs x Written Voices, Spoken Signs Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text Edited by EGBERT BAKKER & AHUVIA KAHANE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,Massachusetts • London,England • 1997 Copyright©1997bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Writtenvoices,spokensigns:tradition,performance,andtheepic text/editedbyEgbertBakkerandAhuviaKahane. p. cm.—(CenterforHellenicstudiescolloquia) PapersoriginallypresentedatacolloquiumheldJune22–26,1994 attheCenterforHellenicStudiesinWashington,D.C. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0–674–96260–5(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Homer—Criticismandinterpretation—Congresses. 2.Epicpoetry,Greek—Historyandcriticism—Theory,etc.—Congresses. 3.Epicpoetry,Medieval—Historyandcriticism—Theory,etc.—Congresses. 4.Literature,Comparative—Greekandmedieval—Congresses. 5.Literature,Comparative—MedievalandGreek—Congresses. 6.Oralinterpretationofpoetry—Congresses. 7.Writtencommunication—Greece—Congresses. 8.Oral—formulaicanalysis—Congresses. 9.Oraltradition—Greece—Congresses. 10.Oraltradition—Europe—Congresses. I.Bakker,EgbertJ. II.Kahane,Ahuvia. III.Series. PA4037.A5W75 1997 883′.01—dc21 96–46776 x F O R E W O R D The Center for Hellenic Studies, located on a wooded campus in Washington, D.C., is a privately endowed residential research instituteaffiliatedwithHarvardUniversity.Atits coreisaspecial- ized library devoted to ancient Greek literature, history, philoso- phy, and related fields. Each academic year the Center offers ten Junior Fellowships to an international group of Hellenists in the earlier stages of their careers, as well as a Summer Session for postdoctoral scholars who need ready access to a strong research library. In addition, the Center has recently begun an annual Colloquium series. TheCHSColloquiaaredevotedto examiningsignificant topics that will profit from extended interaction of experts in various fieldswithinandoutsideofAncientGreekstudies.Theseprojects have a distinctly collaborative character. The organizers first for- mulate their proposed topic in consultation with the Center’s Directors and its academic advisory board of Senior Fellows. They then invite participants to prepare original papers that will address designated aspects of the topic. In addition to those who arewritingpapers,severalexpertsareinvitedtocontributetothe processasdiscussants.Atthecolloquiumitself,intherelaxedand intimate atmosphere of the Center, participants present and dis- cuss the papers overthe courseoffourorfivedays.Eachchapter is then rewritten in light of the discussion, again in collaboration with the organizers. This volume represents the revised papers of the first CHS Colloquium,whichwas held in June 1994.Theorganizers,Egbert Bakker and Ahuvia Kahane, were Junior Fellows in 1992–93 and 1993–94 respectively. Both had worked on aspects of the per- v FOREWORD formance of Homeric epic and were interested in studying such issues more broadly. They decided to organize a multiauthored, theoretically oriented book that would consider audience-per- formerinteractionfromtheperspectivenotonly of ancient Greek but also of later European oral epic traditions. At the same time, the Center was developing a new program of annual colloquia. Project and program matched perfectly, and the first colloquium was on its way. Wethankallwhohavecontributedtotheprocess:theorganiz- ersfortheircreativeinitiativeand scholarlyleadership,all partici- pants for their cooperative spirit and intellectual energy, the SeniorFellowsfortheirsupportandadvice,thePress(inparticu- lar Margaretta Fulton) for its enthusiastic acceptance of the new series, and not least the entire CHS staff, who made the meeting apracticalreality.Wehopethatthisfirstvolumeintheserieswill convey to itsreaders someof the senseofexcitement andmutual illumination thatwasexperienced by all who participated. Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub Directors, Center for HellenicStudies vi x C O N T E N T S Introduction 1 Egbert Bakker and Ahuvia Kahane 1 Storytellingin the Future: Truth, Time, and Tense in Homeric Epic 11 Egbert Bakker 2 Writing the Emperor’s Clothes On: Literacy and the Production ofFacts 37 Franz H. Bäuml 3 TraditionalSigns andHomeric Art 56 John MilesFoley 4 TheInland Ship: Problems in the Performance and Reception ofHomeric Epic 83 Andrew Ford 5 Hexameter Progression andthe Homeric Hero’s Solitary State 110 Ahuvia Kahane 6 Similes andPerformance 138 Richard P. Martin 7 Ellipsisin Homer 167 Gregory Nagy 8 Types of Orality in Text 190 Wulf Oesterreicher CONTENTS 9 TheMedialApproach: AParadigm Shift in the Philologies? 215 Ursula Schaefer Notes 233 Bibliography 265 Contributors 297 Index 299 viii Written Voices, Spoken Signs
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