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James Bradley Wells
"In Pindar's Verbal Art, 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 popular dimensions of his songs. Wells offers a new take on recurrent Pindaric questions: genre, the unity of the victory song, tradition, and, principally, epinician performance."--Jacket.
| Publisher | Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, distributed by Harvard University Press |
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| Pages | 266 |
| Search language | italian |
| ISBN_10 | 0-674-03627-1 primary |
| ISBN_13 | 978-0-674-03627-7 primary |
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