Robert Fowler (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Homer

Herausgeber: Fowler, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume an international team of experts discusses the Iliad and the Odyssey, their background and composition and, most originally, their subsequent reception down to the present day. The work provides the best of contemporary scholarship, new critical insights and a guide to further reading on the topic.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780521012461
• ISBN-10: 0521012465
• Artikelnr.: 22079045

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Robert Fowler
Part I. The Poems and their Narrator: 1. The Iliad: an unpredictable classic Donald Lateiner
2. The Odyssey and its explorations Michael Silk
3. The storyteller and his audience Ruth Scodel
Part II. The Characters: 4. The gods in the Homeric epics Emily Kearns
5. Manhood and heroism Michael Clarke
6. Gender and Homeric epic Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin
Part III. The Poet's Craft: 7. Formulas, metre and type-scenes Matthew Clarke
8. Similes and other likenesses Richard Buxton
9. The speeches Jasper Griffin
Part IV. Text and Context: 10. Epic as genre John Miles Foley
11. The epic tradition in Greece Ken Dowden
12. Homer's society Robin Osborne
13. The Homeric question Robert Fowler
Part V. Homeric Receptions: 14. Homer and Greek literature Richard Hunter
15. Roman Homer Joseph Farrell
16. Homer and English epic Penelope Wilson
17. Homer and the Romantics Timothy Webb
18. Homer and Ulysses Vanda Zajko
19. Homer: the history of an idea James Porter
20. 'Shards and suckers': contemporary receptions of Homer Lorna Hardwick
21. Homer in English translation George Steiner.