Homer's Odyssey

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-923332-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

This volume assembles sixteen authoritative articles on Homer's Odyssey that have appeared over the last thirty years. A wide variety of interpretative strategies are represented, including, in addition to traditional close readings, the approaches of comparative anthropology, narratology, feminism, and audience-oriented criticism. Papers have been selected for their clarity and accessibility, and each is informed by close attention to philological and textual detail. A full glossary and list of abbreviations have been included, and a specially written introduction puts the selections in a wider context by giving an overview of major strands in the interpretation of Homer in the second half of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doherty, Lillian E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introducton

- 1: Minna Skafte Jensen: In What Sense Can the Iliad and the Odyssey Be Considered Oral Texts?

- 2: Walter Burkert: The Song of Ares and Aphrodite: On the Relationship between the Odyssey and the Iliad

- 3: Adolf Köhnken: Odysseus' Scar: An Essay on Homeric Epic Narrative Technique

- 4: Irene J. F. de Jong: Between Word and Deed: Hidden Thoughts in the Odyssey

- 5: Norman Austin: Name Magic in the Odyssey

- 6: Erwin Cook: 'Active' and 'Passive' Heroics in the Odyssey

- 7: Peter Walcot: Odysseus and the Art of Lying

- 8: R. B. Rutherford: The Philosophy of the Odyssey

- 9: Helene P. Foley: 'Reverse Similes' and Sex Roles in the Odyssey

- 10: Chris Emlyn-Jones: The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus

- 11: Sheila Murnaghan: Penelope's Agnoia: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in the Odyssey

- 12: Lillian E. Doherty: Gender and Internal Audiences in the Odyssey

- 13: James M. Redfield: The Economic Man

- 14: Peter W. Rose: Class Ambivalence in the Odyssey

- 15: Ann L. T. Bergren: Helen's 'Good Drug'

- 16: Piero Boitani: The Shadow of Ulysses beyond 2001

Über Autor(innen)

Lillian E. Doherty is Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park.