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Pindar´s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style
James Bradley Wells
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Paperback. Argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment and laughter. This study of Pindar's language applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar’s language that applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. In Mikhail Bakhtin’s terms, Pindar’s Verbal Art is a sociological stylistics of epinician language and demonstrates that Pindar’s is a highly dialogical form of art, an intertextual web of voices, whose study enables us to appreciate ... Read more
In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar’s language that applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. In Mikhail Bakhtin’s terms, Pindar’s Verbal Art is a sociological stylistics of epinician language and demonstrates that Pindar’s is a highly dialogical form of art, an intertextual web of voices, whose study enables us to appreciate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Hellenic Studies
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674036277
SKU
V9780674036277
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About James Bradley Wells
James Bradley Wells is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Hamilton College.
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