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The Song of the Sirens: Essays on Homer

By Pietro Pucci

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
1997
ISBN
0822630591, 9780822630593
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16646380 bytes)
Series
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Pages
266\266
Time added
2021-02-12 18:17:53

Description

In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality. Preface Contents ÿþE 1 The Song of the Sirens 2 The Proem of the Odyssey 3 The Language of the Muses 4 Banter and Banquets for Heroic Death 5 Textual Epiphanies in the lliad 6 Epiphanic Strategy and Intertextuality 7 Antiphonal Lament Between Achilles and Briseis ÿþ8 9 Odysseus Narrator: The End of the Heroic Race 10 Honor and Glory in the Iliad Reference List Index

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