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While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 and 1970. ███

Intro topic · Study of ancient Greek poems

Singles out two poems: the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Contrast · Nonspecialists and specialists

Nonspecialists focused on what made these poems great, while specialists focused on more loosely connected side topics

Author's perspective · Specialists emphasized the wrong things about these poems

Author quotes someone else to make this point

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Explain phenomenon · Origins of specialists' "nonpoetical" emphasis

Legacy of Milman Parry's work on history of ancient Greek poetic traditions

Later developments · Return to poetical emphasis

Adam Parry built on Milman's work to bring focus back to the unique poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Unclear whether Adam was a specialist or nonspecialist.

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The author tells us what Milman Parry’s immediate successors did in the middle of P2: “But after Parry's death in 1935, his legacy was taken up by scholars who, unlike Parry, forsook intensive analysis of the poetry itself and focused instead on only one element of Parry's work: the creative limitations and possibilities of oral composition, concentrating on fixed elements and inflexibilities, focusing on the things that oral poetry allegedly can and cannot do.”

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We’re looking for an answer that describes the scholars’ focus on the limitations of oral poetry. (A) doesn’t mention the limitations of oral poetry. In addition, the immediate successors were not interested in Homer’s archaeological and historical background. This was an interest of scholars who came after the immediate successors of Milman Parry.

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We’re looking for an answer that describes the scholars’ focus on the limitations of oral poetry. (B) doesn’t mention the limitations of oral poetry. In addition, the scholarship that emphasized Homer’s uniqueness did not come from Milman Parry’s immediate successors, but rather, from Adam Parry.

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We’re looking for an answer that describes the scholars’ focus on the limitations of oral poetry. (C) doesn’t mention the limitations of oral poetry. Milman Parry’s immediate successors weren’t focused on Homer’s work as great poetry.

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This is stated in the middle of P2.

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We’re looking for an answer that describes the scholars’ focus on the limitations of oral poetry. (E) doesn’t mention the limitations of oral poetry.

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