Reading Homer : film and text / edited by Kostas Myrsiades.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myrsiades, Kostas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Homer--Influence.

Troy (Motion picture).

Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.

Motion pictures.

Mythology in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the psychology of Homeric warriors, and the re-evaluation of type scenes, but also with Homer's influence on contemporary film. Following the introduction and an essay which sets the historical background for the epics, four essays are devoted to fresh analysis of key passages and themes while another four turn to a discussion of the film Troy and Homer's influence on two other genres of American cinema.

Contents:

Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades

Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross

Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton

Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos

Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson

The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon / Joel Christensen

Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess

Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson

The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden

Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8386-4334-5

OCLC:

694147618