We were pleased to welcome Gregory Nagy and guests, for an Open House session during which we discussed the epic cycle, oral poetics, and composition in performance, including:
- what the wheel of a chariot means
- how ring composition works
- how a performer relates to the audience
- what happens with predictions within the narrative
- the difference between improvisation and deep structure/surface structure
- multiformity vs interpolation
You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or in the frame below:
Selection of references mentioned during the conversation:
- Albert B. Lord: Singer of Tales
- Gregory Nagy: Homeric Questions
- Gregory Nagy: Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
- Cedric Whitman: Homer and the Heroic Tradition
- Gregory Nagy: The Homer Multitext Project article which originally appeared in Jerome McGann: The Shape of Things to Come
- Gregory Nagy: The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction
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