Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Ready
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Bibliographical Survey

This chapter aims to convince Homerists and their fellow travelers in classical studies that they will find this entire book of value and to persuade those with interests in comparative literature, ethnography, folkloristics, and linguistic anthropology that they should at least read Part I. The chapter reviews the precedents for and goals of this study, defends the choice of the phrases “the Iliad poet” and “the Odyssey poet,” explains the comparative methods used, provides a bibliographical survey of the modern oral poetries investigated in the book, defines a simile, and summarizes the contents of each chapter.

scholarly journals Literatura Comparada e Estudos Clássicos: um diálogo interdisciplinar

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Thiago de Souza Bittencourt Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Classical Studies

The aim of such investigation is to discuss, firstly, the issue of the “Greek miracle” in the light of an interdisciplinary dialogue between Comparative Literature and Classical Studies; secondly, to establish, from such discussion, its role in the process of the constitution of the “western tradition”.

Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Ready
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Work ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
The Relationship

This book queries from three different angles what it means to speak of Homeric poetry together with the word “text.” Scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies on the relationship between orality and textuality motivates and undergirds the project. Part I uses work in linguistic anthropology on oral texts and oral intertextuality to illuminate both the verbal and oratorical landscapes our Homeric poets fashion in their epics and what the poets were striving to do when they performed. Looking to folkloristics, Part II examines modern instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work in order to reconstruct the creation of written versions of the Homeric poems through a process that began with a poet dictating to a scribe. Combining research into scribal activity in other cultures, especially in the fields of religious studies and medieval studies, with research into performance in the field of linguistic anthropology, Part III investigates some of the earliest extant texts of the Homeric epics, the so-called wild papyri. Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE. By looking at oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts, this book traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts. Researchers in a number of disciplines will benefit from this comparative and interdisciplinary study.

scholarly journals Literatura Comparada e Estudos Clássicos: um diálogo interdisciplinar

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Thiago De Souza Bittencourt Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Classical Studies

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Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Ready
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Classical Studies

This chapter first situates this project in the context of current discussions about the definitions of the terms “orality” and “textuality,” both of which have medial and conceptional senses. It then lays out three lessons from work on orality and textuality from outside the field of classical studies—from linguistic anthropology to folkloristics to medieval studies to religious studies—and reviews how the subsequent chapters apply these lessons to the study of Homeric poetry. It concludes by positioning this study in relation to previous work in Homeric studies and by suggesting which parts of the book readers from outside classical studies will find most valuable.

The Alevi Diaspora – Its emergence as a political actor and its impact on the homeland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-353
Author(s):  
Zeynep Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Official Recognition

Through comparative literature research and qualitative analysis, this article considers the development of Alevi identity and political agency among the diaspora living in a European democratic context. This affects the Alevi emergence as political actors in Turkey, where they have no official recognition as a distinct religious identity. New questions regarding their identity and their aspiration to be seen as a political actor confront this ethno-religious group defined by common historical trauma, displacement, massacre, and finally emigration.

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