Tabla de Contenidos: “…Katz -- Epic and myth / Lowell Edmunds -- Performance / Minna Skafte Jensen -- Epic and history / Kurt A. …”

“…Yet this characteristic of the Homeric epics has led scholars to underplay the poems' use of non-direct speech, the importance of speech represented by characters, and the overall sophistication of Homeric narrative as measured by its approach to speech representation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I: Epic beginnings -- This side Jordon: epic conflict -- The tomorrow-tamer: patterns of exile -- II: The comedy of the soul -- The stone angel: Hagar in hell -- A jest of God and The fire-dwellers: purgatorial progress -- Jason's quest and A bird in the house: epic dialogue -- The diviners: heaven on earth -- Epic epilogue…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…0: IntroductionPart I: Oral Texts and Oral Intertextuality1: Oral Texts and Entextualization in the Homeric EpicsIntroduction1.1: Performance, Oral Texts, and Entextualization1.2: Application to the Homeric Epics1.2.1: The Preexistence of Tales and Songs and the Object-Like Status of Utterances in the Homeric Epics1.2.2: Entextualization in the Character Text I1.2.3: Entextualization in the Character Text II1.2.4: The Poet and Entextualization1.3: Homerists on Texts2: Oral Intertextuality and Mediational Routines in the Homeric EpicsIntroduction2.1: Oral Intertextuality and Mediational Routines2.2: Mediational Routines in the Homeric Epics2.2.1: The Source Text2.2.2: The Target Text2.3: Metapoetic ImplicationsPart II: The Emergence of Written Texts3: Textualization: Dictation and Written Versions of the Iliad and the OdysseyIntroduction3.1: The Dictation Model3.2: A Comparative Approach3.3: The Process of Recording by Hand3.3.1: The Challenges of Manual Transcription3.3.2: Steps to Work around These Challenges and Their Effects3.3.3: The Rare Exceptions3.3.4: Dictated Texts versus Sung Texts3.3.5: What Was Written Down3.3.5.1: The Collector as Gatekeeper3.3.5.2: The Scribal Process3.4: The Collector's Impact on the Oral Text3.4.1: Unwitting Interference (or the Collector's Presence)3.4.2: Purposeful Interference3.5: Editing3.5.1: Field Notes3.5.2: Editorial Work in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries3.5.3: Editorial Work from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century until Today3.6: Best Practices3.7: The Collector's Text versus the Performer's Oral Performance3.8: The Formulations in Section 3.1 Reevaluated3.9: The Evolutionary Model's TranscriptExcursus: The Interventionist Textmaker and Herodotus's HistoriesPart III: Copying Written Texts4: The Scribe as Performer and the Ptolemaic Wild Papyri of the Homeric EpicsIntroduction4.1: The Ptolemaic Wild Papyri of the Homeric Epics4.2: The Nature of the Variation: Not Scribal Error4.3: Accounting for This Variation4.4: The Scribe as Performer4.5: The Scribe as Performer and the Wild Homeric Papyri4.5.1: The Wild Papyri and the Comparanda4.5.2: When?…”