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Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Myth and Poetics) [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 237 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press; illustrated edition edition (Dec 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0801432952
ISBN-13: 978-0801432958
Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.4 x 2.8 cm
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