Repetition in Homeric epic: Cognitive and linguistic perspectives

Elizabeth Minchin

doi:10.1515/9783110348538-003

Repetition in Homeric epic: Cognitive and linguistic perspectives

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Why are there so many instances - and so many varieties - of repetition in the oral epics that we associate with Homer's name? In this paper I begin with Deborah Tannen's observations on repetition in spontaneous conversational discourse. I then turn to the oral epic tradition that had flourished in early Greece to consider how repetition operates in its two representative poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science
Editors	Mihailo Antovic and Cristobal Pagan Canovas
Place of Publication	Berlin Germany
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter and Co.
Pages	12-29
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9783110348385
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110348538-003
Publication status	Published - 2016

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