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The Poetics of Consent

Name: The Poetics of Consent
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Collective Decision Making and the Iliad

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By David F. Elmer
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 336

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The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliads depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poems three political communitiesAchaeans, Trojans, and Olympian godsengage in the process of collective decision making. These scenes reflect an awareness of the negotiation involved in reconciling rival versions of the Iliad over centuries. They also point beyond the Iliads world of gods and heroes to the here-and-now of the poems performance and reception, in which the consensus over the shape and meaning of the Iliadic tradition is continuously evolving.Elmer synthesizes ideas and methods from literary and political theory, classical philology, anthropology, and folklore studies to construct an alternative to conventional understandings of the Iliads politics. The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad.

Acknowledgments
A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Politics to Poetics
Part I: Frameworks and Paradigms
1. The Grammar of Reception
2. Consensus and Kosmos: Speech and the Social World in an Indo- European Perspective
3. Achilles and the Crisis of the Exception
4. Social Order and Poetic Order: Agamemnon, Thersites, and the Cata logue of Ships
Part II: The Iliad's Political Communities
5. In Search of Epainos: Collective Decision Making among the Achaeans
6. A Consensus of Fools: The Trojans' Exceptional Epainos
7. The View from Olympus: Divine Politics and Metapoetics
Part III: Resolutions
8. The Return to Normalcy and the Iliad's ""Boundless People""
9. The Politics of Reception: Collective Response and Iliadic Audiences within and beyond the Text
Afterword: Epainos and the Odyssey
Notes
Bibliography
Notes

""... The Poetics of consent is an in-depth study of one word, epainos ('approval'), and its occurrence throughout the Iliad. But, in Elmer's expert hands, It becomes the means like an Ariadne thread, of tracing a way through the Iliad's bigger picture, this book will be a trustworthy companion for future generations if Homeric scholars.""

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