The Poetics of Consent : Collective Decision Making and the Iliad /

The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad's depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Elmer, David F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Homer. > Iliad.
Iliad (Homer)
Consensus (Social sciences) in literature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The grammar of reception
  • Consensus and Kosmos: speech and the social world in an Indo-European perspective
  • Achilles and the crisis of the exception
  • Social order and poetic order: Agamemnon, Thersites, and the catalogue of ships
  • In search of Epainos: collective decision making among the Achaeans
  • A consensus of fools: the Trojans' exceptional Epainos
  • The view from Olympus: divine politics and metapoetics
  • The return to normalcy and the Iliad's "boundless people"
  • The politics of reception: collective response and Iliadic audiences within and beyond the text.

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