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Character, narrator, and simile in the Iliad /
"Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made to contest through and over simile not only with one another but also with the narrator. Ready investigates the narrator's similes as well. He demonstrates that Homer amplifies the feat of a successful warrior by providing a competitive orientation to sequences of similes used to describe battle. He also offers a new interpretation of Homer's extended similes as a means for the poet to imagine his characters as competitors for his attention. Throughout this study, Ready makes innovative use of approaches from both Homeric studies and narratology that have not yet been applied to the analysis of Homer's similes"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781139042222 113904222X 1139044850 9781139044851 9780511760969 0511760965 9781107687332 1107687330 1107213711 9781107213715 1139035991 9781139035996 1283052040 9781283052047 9786613052049 6613052043 1139041452 9781139041454 1139040685 9781139040686 1139038311 9781139038317 |