Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g
Selected Interpretive Essays
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-04439-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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.
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PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction3Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey: A Study of Religious and Mythical Meanings33Death with Two Faces55The Adventures in the Odyssey63Penelope and the Suitors133Dread Goddess Revisited141Penelope's Perspective: Character from Plot163The Refusal of Odysseus185The Song of the Sirens191Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey201Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey223Bibliography239Contributors253Index of Passages Discussed and Cited257General Index271
