Arete And The Odyssey S Poetics Of Interrogation

Author : Justin Arft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
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Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Questioning in literature
ISBN : 9780192847805

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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Author : Justin Arft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780192663603

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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation by Justin Arft Pdf

Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Author : Justin Tyler Arft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 0191943185

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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation by Justin Tyler Arft Pdf

Justin Arft explores how the Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale 'poetics of interrogation' used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Author : George Alexander Gazis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191091155

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Homer and the Poetics of Hades by George Alexander Gazis Pdf

Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resource permitting an alternative perspective on the epic past. By portraying Hades as a realm where vision is not possible, Homer creates a unique poetic environment in which social constraints and divine prohibitions do not apply, resulting in a narrative which emulates that of the Muses but which at the same time is markedly distinct from it. In Hades experimentation with, and alteration of, important epic forms and values can be pursued with greater freedom, giving rise to a different kind of poetics: the 'poetics of Hades'. In the Iliad, Homer offers us a glimpse of how this alternative poetics works through the visit of Patroclus' shade in Achilles' dream. The recollection offered by the shade reveals an approach to its past in which regret, self-pity, and a lingering memory of intimate and emotional moments displace an objective tone and traditional exposition of heroic values. However, the potential of Hades for providing alternative means of commemorating the past is more fully explored in the 'Nekyia' of Odyssey 11: there, Odysseus' extraordinary ability to see the dead in Hades allows him to meet and interview the shades of heroines and heroes of the epic past, while the absolute confinement of Hades allows the shades to recount their stories from their own personal points of view. The poetic implications are significant, since by visiting Hades and listening to the stories of the shades Odysseus, and Homer with him, gain access to a tradition in which epic values associated with gender roles and even divine law are suspended in favour of a more immediate and personally inflected approach to the epic past. As readers, this alternative poetics offers us more than just a revised framework within which to navigate the Iliad and the Odyssey, inviting as it does a more nuanced understanding of the Greeks' anxieties around mortality and posthumous fame.

Author : Elizabeth Minchin,Senior Lecturer in Classics Elizabeth Minchin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199280126

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Homeric Voices by Elizabeth Minchin,Senior Lecturer in Classics Elizabeth Minchin Pdf

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Author : Denton J. Snider
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752423655

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Homer’s Odyssey by Denton J. Snider Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Homer’s Odyssey by Denton J. Snider

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39076000549324

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Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pdf

Author : Pajari Räsänen
Publisher : Pajari Räsänen
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789521042041

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Counter-figures: An Essay on Anti-metaphoric Resistance. Paul Celan's Poetry and Poetics at the Limits of Figurality by Pajari Räsänen Pdf

Author : Elodie Paillard,Silvia Sueli Milanezi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110716559

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Theatre and Metatheatre by Elodie Paillard,Silvia Sueli Milanezi Pdf

The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many different, sometimes even contradictory, ways by modern scholars. Through a series of papers examining questions related to ancient Greek theatre and dramatic performances of various genres the use of those two terms is problematized and put into question. Must ancient Greek theatre be reduced to what was performed in proper theatre-buildings? And is everything was performed within such buildings to be considered as ‘theatre’? How does the definition of what is considered as theatre evolve from one period to the other? As for ‘metatheatre’, the discussion revolves around the interaction between reality and fiction in dramatic pieces of all genres. The various definitions of ‘metatheatre’ are also explored and explicited by the papers gathered in this volume, as well as the question of the distinction between paratheatre (understood as paratragedy/comedy) and metatheatre. Readers will be encouraged by the diversity of approaches presented in this book to re-think their own understanding and use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ when examining ancient Greek reality.

Author : Stephen G. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520931033

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Arete by Stephen G. Miller Pdf

From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity.

Author : Richard Heinze
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1853995797

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Virgil's Epic Technique by Richard Heinze Pdf

The great German philologist Richard Heinze's Virgils Epische Technik was originally published in German in 1903. It was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a very valuable study of the techniques Virgil used to compose the Aeneid. This English translation by Hazel Harvey, David Harvey and Fred Robertson was published in 1994, with an introduction by Antonie Wlosok.

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107171718

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Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece by Richard Seaford Pdf

Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307807892

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Doctors by Sherwin B. Nuland Pdf

From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.

Author : Bryan L. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319607382

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Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism by Bryan L. Moore Pdf

This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts; eighteenth-century French philosophy; early to contemporary American texts and poetry; and science fiction to demonstrate a historical basis for the questioning of anthropocentrism and contemplation of responsible environmental stewardship in the twenty-first century and beyond. Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism is essential reading for ecocritics and ecofeminists. It will also be useful for researchers interested in the relationship between science and literature, environmental philosophy, and literature in general.

Author : Lee M. Fratantuono,R. Alden Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004301283

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Virgil, Aeneid 5 by Lee M. Fratantuono,R. Alden Smith Pdf

Fratantuono and Smith provide the first detailed consideration of Book 5 of Virgil’s Aeneid, with introduction, critical text, translation and commentary.