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Author : William Clyde Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004037896
Author : William C. Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004327375
Author : William C. Scott
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611682298
An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile
Author : Jonathan L. Ready
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198802556
Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136539602
Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics.
Author : G. S. Kirk,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,John Bryan Hainsworth,Nicholas James Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0521312086
The fifth volume of the major six-volume commentary on Homer's Iliad is the first to be edited by one of G.S. Kirk's four collaborators. It also consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of narrative style) followed by the commentary.
Author : Jonathan S. Burgess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857726247
What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that- while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius- even in the ancien world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth-maker became the subject of myth. For the satirist Lucian (c.125-180 CE) he ws a captive Babylonian. Other traditions have Homer born in Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, or portray him as a blind and wandering minstrel. In his new and authoritative introduction, Jonathan S. Burgess addresses fundamental questions of provenance and authorship. Besides conveying why these epics have been cherished down the ages, he discusses their historical sources and the possible impact on the Iliad and Odyssey of Indo-European, Near Eastern and folktale influences. Tracing their transmission through the ancient, medieval and modern periods, the author further examines questions of theory and reception.
Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1976-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521213097
In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk considers the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.
Author : Susanne Lindgren Wofford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804780803
This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's Paradise Lost and Cervantes' Don Quixote, an 'epic' in prose. The book outlines a theory of how and why epic narrative may be said to subvert certain of its constitutive claims while articulating a cultural argument of which it becomes the contradictory paradigm. The author focuses on the aesthetic and ideological work accomplished by poetic figure in these narratives, and understands ideology as a figurative, substitutive system that resembles and uses the system of tropes. She defines the ideological function of tropes in narrative and the often contradictory way in which narratives acknowledge and seek to efface the transformative functions of ideology. Beginning with what it describes as a dual tendency within the epic simile (toward metaphor in the transformations of ideology; toward metonymy as it maintains a structure of difference), the book defines the politics of the simile in epic narrative and identifies metalepsis as the defining trope of ideology. It demonstrates the political and poetic costs of the structural reliance of allegorical narrative on catachresis and shows how the narrator's use of prosopopoeia to assert political authority reshapes the figurative economy of the epic. The book is particularly innovative in being the first to apply to the epic the set of questions posed by the linking of the theory of rhetoric and the theory of ideology. It argues that historical pressures on a text are often best seen as a dialectic in which ideology shapes poetic process while poetry counters, resists, figures, or generates the tropes of ideology itself.
Author : Janet Watson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004351028
This collection of essays provides a valuable cross-section of recent research into the interrelationship of orality and literacy in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
Author : R. B. Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199222096
A concise yet detailed account of the state of criticism of the two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Author : V. Knight
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329775
The Renewal of Epic considers various modes of allusion to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius, dealing not only with similarities in phraseology but also with thematic and structural resemblances. After an introduction, two chapters discuss Apollonian techniques in treating repeated Homeric scenes: sacrifice, shipwreck, boxing and battle. The central section of the work considers the multiple links between the adventures of the Argonauts and Odysseus' wanderings. A final chapter explores Apollonius' innovative treatment of the divine, both generally and in particular scenes. The work shows convincingly that the Argonautica reproduces many of the patterns which have been found in the Iliad and Odyssey. It demonstrates the presence of allusion at every level in the poem, linking it to its predecesors and acting as an essential interpretative aid to the reader.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521347602
A general survey of the Odyssey, together with comment on the action, characterisation and style of books XIX and XX.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199802920
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Author : Deborah Beck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108639774
Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.