Reading the Odyssey - 9780691044392
Un libro in lingua di Schein Seth L. (EDT) edito da Princeton Univ Pr, 1995
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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; 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Reading the Odyssey
- Sottotitolo: Selected Interpretive Essays
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Schein Seth L. (EDT)
- Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
- Collana: Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 28 Novembre '95
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0691044392
- EAN-13: 9780691044392