Reading the Odyssey Selected Interpretive Essays / edited with an introduction by Seth L. Schein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schein, Seth L. (1942- )., Redaktor, Autor wstępu.

Princeton University Press, Publisher.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, opyright 1996.

Language Note:

Teksty w języku angielskim, fragmenty źródeł w języku greckim.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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 Mētis of the Odyssey

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED AND CITED

GENERAL INDEX

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691044408

0691044406

9780691214146

069121414X

OCLC:

1175628760