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By Deborah Beck
The Iliad and the Odyssey are emotional powerhouses mostly due to their large use of direct speech. but this attribute of the Homeric epics has led students to underplay the poems' use of non-direct speech, the significance of speech represented by means of characters, and the general sophistication of Homeric narrative as measured through its method of speech illustration. during this pathfinding research against this, Deborah Beck undertakes the 1st systematic exam of the entire speeches provided within the Homeric poems to teach that Homeric speech presentation is a unified method that comes with either direct citation and non-direct modes of speech presentation.
Drawing at the fields of narratology and linguistics, Beck demonstrates that the Iliad and the Odyssey characterize speech in a broader and extra nuanced demeanour than has been perceived ahead of, permitting us to reevaluate our knowing of supposedly "modern" suggestions of speech illustration and to refine our concept of the place Homeric poetry belongs within the heritage of Western literature. She additionally broadens rules of narratology through connecting them extra strongly with appropriate components of linguistics, as she makes use of either to ascertain the entire diversity of speech representational ideas within the Homeric poems. via this in-depth research of ways speech is represented within the Homeric poems, Beck seeks to make either the method in their composition and the ensuing poems themselves appear extra obtainable, regardless of pervasive uncertainties approximately how and while the poems have been prepare.
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Chapter 3, on indirect speech, shows that the characters use indirect speech for a wider range of functions than the main narrators do, but that all of these functions have underlying similarities related to the fundamental properties of indirect speech. In other words, focusing on indirect speech at the level of the main narrators, as previous studies have done, misses the full range of functions and effects that indirect speech has in the Homeric poems. Chapter 4 explores the effects and functions of speech mention.
These concerns give rise to direct quotations when others do not, because in various ways they are central to the main themes of the Homeric poems. Characters who use direct quotation in a manner similar to the main narrator, to depict while telling a story several characters talking in extended conversations, are in the minority among characters who use direct quotation. Even these apparently disinterested embedded conversations often turn out to closely reflect the characteristics and goals of the conversation in which the quoting speaker is a participant.
So I will tell, whoever you may be of the goddesses, that I am not detained of my own free will, but it must be I have offended the immortals who hold wide heaven. But do you then tell me, for the gods know everything, which one of the immortals hampers me here and keeps me from my journey and tell me how to make my way home on the sea where the fish swarm. In comparison, the main narrator’s speech presentation in the Odyssey as a whole includes 76 questions, of which one-third (29) are presented with directive rather than interrogative sentence types.