Reading Homer : film and text /
These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the psychology of Homeric warriors, and the re-evaluation of type scenes, but also with Homer's influence on contemporary film. Following the introduction and an e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison [NJ] :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades
- Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross
- Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton
- Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos
- Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson
- The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthôn / Joel Christensen
- Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess
- Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson
- The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden
- Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.