Hearing Homer's song: the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry
In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist’s son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist’s son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry’s trailblazing work in the 1930’s, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life’s work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story–cut short by Parry’s mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia–where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry–we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry’s marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry’s tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry’s legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.-- |
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| adam_text | Contents PART ONE Edifice 1 Young Albert and Mr. Parry 2 Singer of Tales 12 PART TWO California 3 Down in the Flats 4 The Old Dear 25 29 5 Armilius the Sage 39 6 Mrs. Parry 45 7 Milman on the Beach 8 Glaukopis Athene 54 63 PART THREE Paris 9 The Paris Deal 10 A World to Him 73 81 ո Student Without a School 12 Almost Every Sunday 13 The Homeric Question 93 98 86
14 Ornamental Epithets 15 Trapped 103 115 16 Soutenance 121 PART FOUR Harvard 17 The Call 133 18 His Cat-like Smile 19 The Oral Turn 141 147 20 Nothing Else to Do 21 A Darkness There 157 163 PART FIVE Yugoslavia 22 Reconnaissance 175 23 Kirkland House 190 24 The Actual Procedure of Work 25 Avdo 217 part six Memorial 26 At the Palms Hotel 233 27 The House of Academe Acknowledgments Notes 2JI Index 307 250 շ6յ 199
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Contents PART ONE Edifice 1 Young Albert and Mr. Parry 2 Singer of Tales 12 PART TWO California 3 Down in the Flats 4 The Old Dear 25 29 5 Armilius the Sage 39 6 Mrs. Parry 45 7 Milman on the Beach 8 Glaukopis Athene 54 63 PART THREE Paris 9 The Paris Deal 10 A World to Him 73 81 ո Student Without a School 12 Almost Every Sunday 13 The Homeric Question 93 98 86
14 Ornamental Epithets 15 Trapped 103 115 16 Soutenance 121 PART FOUR Harvard 17 The Call 133 18 His Cat-like Smile 19 The Oral Turn 141 147 20 Nothing Else to Do 21 A Darkness There 157 163 PART FIVE Yugoslavia 22 Reconnaissance 175 23 Kirkland House 190 24 The Actual Procedure of Work 25 Avdo 217 part six Memorial 26 At the Palms Hotel 233 27 The House of Academe Acknowledgments Notes 2JI Index 307 250 շ6յ 199 |
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