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    Hearing Homer's song : the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry / Robert Kanigel.
    by Kanigel, Robert. author.
    New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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    320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Edifice. Young Albert and Mr. Parry ; Singer of tales -- California. Down in the flats ; The old dear ; Armilius the sage ; Mrs. Parry ; Milman on the beach ; Glaukopis Athene -- Paris. The Paris deal ; A world to him ; Student without a school ; Almost every Sunday ; The Homeric question ; Ornamental epithets ; Trapped ; Soutenance -- Harvard. The call ; His cat-like smile ; The oral turn ; Nothing else to do ; A darkness there -- Yugoslavia. Reconnaissance ; Kirkland House ; The actual procedure of work ; Avdo -- Memorial. At the Palms Hotel ; The House of Academe.
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    From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel givers us a long overdue portrait of Milman Parry, an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did he change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Before Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930s, centuries of readers took it for granted that the Homeric epics were "written," like any other literature; today, after Parry, we realize that they evolved out of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and he explores the circumstances of Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel shows how what began as an attempt to understand the Homeric epics evolved into a new field altogether, "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop. ---From dust jacket.
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    Purchased with grant funds from the State Library of Iowa and Institute of Museum and Library Services
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