Reading the Odyssey (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Interpretive Essays
Redaktion: Schein, Seth L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691214146
• Artikelnr.: 60076621

Autorenporträt

Seth L. Schein is Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at the University of California, Davis. His books include The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's "Iliad" and The Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
3
Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey: A Study of Religious and Mythical
Meanings
33
Death with Two Faces
55
The Adventures in the Odyssey
63
Penelope and the Suitors
133
Dread Goddess Revisited
141
Penelope's Perspective: Character from Plot
163
The Refusal of Odysseus
185
The Song of the Sirens
191
Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey
201
Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey
223
Bibliography
239
Contributors
253
Index of Passages Discussed and Cited
257
General Index
271