Reading the Odyssey : selected interpretive essays

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Reading the Odyssey : selected interpretive essays

edited with an introduction by Seth L. Schein

Princeton University Press, c1996

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [239]-252

Includes indexes

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: pbk ISBN 9780691044392

内容説明

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
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ISBN 9780691044408

内容説明

This collection makes available critical work on the "Odyssey" produced since the 1940s. 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.

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