TY  - GEN
T1  - Reading the Odyssey : selected interpretive essays
A2  - Schein, Seth L.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn317542621
AB  - 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.
OP  - 278
CN  - PA4167 .R43 1995
SN  - 0691044406
SN  - 9780691044408
SN  - 0691044392
SN  - 9780691044392
SN  - 9780691214146
SN  - 069121414X
KW  - Homer. : Odyssey.
KW  - Odysseus, : King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
KW  - Odyssey (Homer)
KW  - Homerus : (8.-7. p. n. e.). : Odysseia.
KW  - Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature.
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek : History and criticism.
KW  - Poésie épique grecque : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Ancient & Classical.
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - Literature
KW  - Poezja epicka grecka : historia i krytyka.
KW  - Odyseusz (mitologia grecka) : w literaturze.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -