TY - BOOK ID - 46192144 TI - Homer and the poetics of gesture PY - 2019 SN - 9780190915452 0190915455 9780190915476 9780190915483 9780190915469 9780190857929 019091548X 0190915463 0190857927 0190915471 9780190857936 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Dialogue KW - History and criticism. KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - Church history KW - History and criticism KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Christianity KW - Apostolic Church KW - Church, Apostolic KW - Early Christianity KW - Early church KW - Primitive and early church KW - Primitive Christianity KW - Fathers of the church KW - Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) KW - Dialog KW - Drama KW - 27 "00/04" KW - 875-31 KW - 239 KW - 239 Apologetica. Polemische, controversiële theologie. Verdediging van het christendom KW - 239 Apologetique. Theologie polemique et controversielle. Defense du christianisme KW - Apologetica. Polemische, controversiële theologie. Verdediging van het christendom KW - Apologetique. Theologie polemique et controversielle. Defense du christianisme KW - 875-31 Griekse literatuur: roman KW - Griekse literatuur: roman KW - 27 "00/04" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/04" KW - 27 "00/04" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/04" KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/04" KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/04" KW - Aesthetics KW - Poetry KW - Medieval Latin literature KW - Homer KW - Gesture in literature KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Christian literature, Early. KW - Primitive and early church. KW - 30-600. KW - Homer - Criticism and interpretation KW - Christian literature, Early - History and criticism KW - Dialogue - Religious aspects - Christianity KW - Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Homerus KW - Hóiméar KW - Hūmīrūs KW - Homeros KW - Gomer KW - Omir KW - Omer KW - Omero KW - Ho-ma KW - Homa KW - Homérosz KW - האמער KW - הומירוס KW - הומר KW - הומרוס KW - هومر KW - هوميروس KW - 荷马 KW - Ὅμηρος KW - Гамэр KW - Hamėr KW - Омир KW - Homère KW - Homero KW - 호메로스 KW - Homerosŭ KW - Homērs KW - Homeras KW - Хомер KW - ホメーロス KW - ホメロス KW - Гомер KW - Homeri KW - Hema KW - Pseudo-Homer KW - Pseudo Omero KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46192144 AB - Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including movement theory, dance studies, phenomenology, and early film, it suggests new approaches for interpreting the relationship between repetition and embodiment in Homer. Through a series of dynamic close readings, Purves argues that the deep-seated habits and gestures of epic bodies are instrumental to our understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey, especially insofar as they attune us to the kinetic structures and sensibilities that shape the meaning of the poems. Each of the chapters isolates a scene in which a specific action, posture, or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and reaching) emerges from the background of its other iterations in order to make larger claims about its poetic significance within the epics as a whole. Beginning from the premise that gestures are shared between characters and often identically repeated within the poems' formulaic system, the book reconsiders long-standing arguments about Homeric agency and character by focusing on those moments when a gesture diverges from its expected course, redirecting the plot or drawing the poem in new and surprising directions. Homer and the Poetics of Gesture not only affords new insights into the nature of epic repetition and poetic originality but also reveals unnoticed connections between Homeric structure and technique and the embodied habits and movements of the characters within the poems. ER -