Description |
x, 178 pages ; 21 cm |
Series |
Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15 |
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Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15
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Contents |
Introduction Homer and the scholars / George Steiner -- Homer and Shakespeare / Leo Tolstoy -- Homer or Virgil? / Ezra Pound -- Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach -- Telemachos remembers / Edwin Muir -- Fire and other elements / Cedric H. Whitman -- Homer / Albert B. Lord -- The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden -- Odysseus did not die in Ithaca / Ernst Bloch -- To narrate or describe? / Georg Lukacs -- Nearing again the legendary isle / C. Day Lewis -- The Sirens and the temptations of knowledge / Gabriel Germain -- The silence of the Sirens / Franz Kafka -- Helen / Rachel Bespaloff -- Hellas / Robert Fitzgerald -- The name of Odysseus / George E. Dimock, Jr. -- The untypical hero / W.B. Stanford -- Ulysses / Robert Graves -- Preface to Homer and the Aether / John Cowper Powys -- The authoress of the Odyssey / Robert Graves -- 'Metis ... Outis' / W.D. Snodgrass -- Translator's note / T.E. Shaw -- James Joyce : an encounter with Homer / Frank Budgen -- Ithaka / C.P. Cavafy -- Epilogue : Homer and the writers / Robert Fagles -- The Argonauts / D.H. Lawrence |
Summary |
A selection of critical essays by Joyce, Tolstoy, Kafka, Pound and others |
Notes |
"February 1990"--T.p |
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"Rand library collection"--Cover |
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Supported by the US. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Mental Health |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178) |
Notes |
Also issued online |
Subject |
880-01 Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
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SUBJECT |
880-01 Όμηρος, 8ος αιώνας π.Χ -- Κριτική και ερμηνεία |
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Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Homer.
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Preferred provider organizations (Medical care) -- United States.
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Author |
Fagles, Robert, editor
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United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
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National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
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Rand Corporation.
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LC no. |
62016890 |
ISBN |
0833009850 |
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