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Formular Economy in Homer: The Poetics of the Breaches

Contributor(s): Friedrich, Rainer (Author)

ISBN: 9783515090650

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH

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Pub Date: July 31, 2007

Dewey: 330.09

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 9.20" L x 6.60" W ( 0.60 lbs) 159 pages

Series: Hermes - Einzelschriften

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Description: The principle of formular economy is to protect an oral poet's thesaurus of formulas against overload through the avoidance of metrical doublets. Being specific to oral poetry, it serves as the chief criterion for determining the orality of a text (known as the economy test of orality).

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