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The story of the Odyssey
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ISBN: 0691014949 0691068550 069121641X Year: 1990 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major themes in the Odyssey, but also helps new readers to understand the artistry of one of the best tales ever told. Aimed at advanced readers as well, this book stresses an appreciation of how Homer has ordered his narrative, covering such topics as character interaction, family relationships, elements of poetic language, and the symbolic treatment of death, rebirth, growth, and knowledge. Given the controversy over the way the Odyssey was composed and handed down, Tracy concentrates on presenting the poem as a highly unified work. His analysis of the narrative structure reveals the epic to be arranged as a series of parallel journeys. The journey, seen here as a symbol of growth and self-knowledge, is among the major themes discussed in detail, along with the importance of women as overseers of life's journeys and the need for the sons of heroes to grow up worthy of their fathers.


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Plutarchi De Homero
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ISSN: 02331160 ISBN: 3322007448 3598716907 3110952602 9783322007445 Year: 1990 Volume: *360 Publisher: Leipzig: Teubner,

Measure and music : enjambement and sentence structure in the "Iliad"
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ISBN: 0198143877 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,


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Man in the middle voice : name and narration in the Odyssey
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ISBN: 0691068305 Year: 1990 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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Beginning with a diagnosis of the current state of American classical philology, John Peradotto proceeds to concentrate on textual practices of naming and narrating in the Odyssey from a perspective that blends traditional philological with semiotic and narratological techniques. What emerges from this reading is a view of the poem as a tense opposition between "myth" and "folktale," recognized as vehicles for contrasting ideological opinions on the world.With terms drawn from Bakhtin's concept of "dialogism," the Odyssey's two voices are characterized as "centripetal" and "centrifugal"--the one associated with dominant political power, with the conventional, the official, and the heroicthe other, with the personal, the disempowered, and the popular, with the antics of the Autolycan trickster and outlaw. As he examines the more audible, "centrifugal" voice, Peradotto shows how the poet's sense of power over his material, represented in Odysseus' ability to narrate a fictitious world, creates a "character" of infinite varietyone whose self-chosen anonymity becomes a paradigm for a subtler ideology of the self than that embodied in the Iliadic Achilles.

The unity of the Odyssey
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ISBN: 0870236431 0585271615 9780585271613 0870237217 1122052936 9781122052931 Year: 1990 Publisher: Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press,

Handel
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ISBN: 3525254172 3525254113 9783525254172 9783525254110 Year: 1990 Volume: 2/M Publisher: Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht,


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Creatures of speech: lion, herding, and hunting similes in the Iliad
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ISBN: 3519074540 9783519074540 Year: 1990 Volume: 5 Publisher: Stuttgart: Teubner,


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Die homerische Gesellschaft : Materialien zur analytischen Beschreibung und historischen Lokalisierung
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ISBN: 3406344097 9783406344091 Year: 1990 Volume: 43 Publisher: München: Beck,


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Selbständigkeit und Abhängigkeit menschlichen Handelns bei Homer: hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Psychologie Homers
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ISBN: 3515057269 9783515057264 Year: 1990 Volume: 1990/5 Publisher: Stuttgart: Steiner,

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