Albany SUNY Press 1975 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 0873950593. This book is in excellent condition. It is clean; with no writing, no highlighting, and no marks inside.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 562 pages.

ISBN10: 0873950593, ISBN13: 9780873950596, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0873950593
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1975]

ISBN10: 0873950593, ISBN13: 9780873950596, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0873950593
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1975]

ISBN10: 0873950593, ISBN13: 9780873950596, [publisher: SUNY Press] Hardcover First Edition Nice clean copy no markings.
[Middletown, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1975]

State University of New York Press 1975 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1300grams, ISBN: 0873950593.

State University of New York Press, Date: 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1975. State University of New York Press ISBN 0873950593 9780873950596 [US]

State University of New York Press 1975 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1300grams, ISBN: 0873950593.

ISBN10: 0873950593, ISBN13: 9780873950596, [publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press] Hardcover XVI, 562 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed, some staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas berieben, etwas angeschmutzter Fußschnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - The Winged Word examines one of the most elaborate of oral compositional techniques and styles: that of the ancient Greek epos. It explains how singers like Homer and Hesiod could compose complicated verses at the speed of speech and how a singer’s words could grow into compositions of massive complexity without dependence on memorization or written texts. This study shows why a singer can be more surprised than his listeners at things that take place in his own song; it explains the nature of traditional inspiration and wisdom. The Winged Word explores not only the surface, the actual texts we still possess, it sounds the depths of the tradition that lies behind them. Much of the detail in this study presents the significant results of one of the most extensive and rigorously thorough analytic examinations ever made of a single piece of connected discourse: the 828 verses of Hesiod’s Works and Days; but the detailed features of the epos are not merely described, their form, use, and function are accounted for by traditional behavioral patterns. A valuable ...
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ISBN10: 0873950593, ISBN13: 9780873950596, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover, Stated First Edition 1975 State University of New York Press 562 pages. Very Good+ in a VG+ DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to brown cloth boards with gilt titles-one tiny bump to edge of front panel. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to un-clipped DJ-now in mylar. No previous owner marks, no notes or writing-all pages are bright, clean and crisp. Albert B. Lord of the Center for the Study of Oral Literature at Harvard University and Honorary Curator of the Parry Collection, whose role is to preserve and disseminate the oral literatures of the world, calls this book "a landmark not only in Hesiod scholarship, but also in Homeric research and in the study of oral traditional literature in general." A superior copy. ISBN- 0873950593.LOC SSS-24
[Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1975]
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