Reading the Odyssey : selected interpretive essays /

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This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values;...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schein, Seth L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Temas:
Homer. > Odyssey.
Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Homerus > (8.-7. p. n. e.). > Odysseia.
Odyssey (Homer)
Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Poésie épique grecque > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Epic poetry, Greek
Literature
Poezja epicka grecka > historia i krytyka.
Odyseusz (mitologia grecka) > w literaturze.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic's distinctive conception of heroism. In the introduction, Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches, some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pietro Pucci, and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin, two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler, and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher, Karl Reinhardt, and Vernant. The result is a collection that juxtaposes older, often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (278 pages .)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0691044406
9780691044408
0691044392
9780691044392
9780691214146
069121414X

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