Reading the Odyssey : selected interpretive essays /
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;...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey
- Death with Two Faces
- The Adventures in the Odyssey
- Penelope and the Suitors
- Dread Goddess Revisited
- Penelope's Perspective
- The Refusal of Odysseus
- The Song of the Sirens
- Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey
- Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index Of Passages Discussed And Cited
- General Index