Ebook: The language of heroes : speech and performance in the Iliad

Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- Preface -- 1. Performance, speech-act, and utterance -- 2. Heroic genres of speaking -- 3. Heroes as performers -- 4. The language of Achilles -- 5. The expansion aesthetic -- The poet as hero: a conclusion Drawing on recent studies in ethnography and sociolinguistics, Richard Martin here sets forth a poetics of Homeric speeches, which he sees not merely as poetic creations but as the representation of an actual form of speaking in a traditional culture