| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages .) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Homer. Odyssey.
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| SUBJECT |
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) fast (OCoLC)fst01915914 |
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Homerus (8.-7. p. n. e.). Odysseia. jhpk |
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Odyssey (Homer) fast (OCoLC)fst01356149 |
| Subject |
Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Epic poetry, Greek.
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Literature.
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Poezja epicka grecka -- historia i krytyka.
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Odyseusz (mitologia grecka) -- w literaturze.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schein, Seth L.
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| ISBN |
0691044406 |
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9780691044408 |
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0691044392 |
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9780691044392 |
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9780691214146 |
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069121414X |
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