| Description |
xvii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The poems and their narrator. The Iliad : an unpredictable classic / Donald Lateiner ; The Odyssey and its explorations / Michael Silk ; The story-teller and his audience / Ruth Scodel -- pt. 2. The characters. The Gods in the Homeric epics / Emily Kearns ; Manhood and heroism / Michael Clarke ; Gender and Homeric epic / Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin -- pt. 3. The poet's craft. Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Matthew Clark ; Similes and other likenesses / Richard Buxton ; The speeches / Jasper Griffin -- pt. 4. Text and context. Epic as genre / John Miles Foley ; The epic tradition in Greece / Ken Dowden ; Homer's society / Robin Osborne ; The Homeric question / Robert Fowler -- pt. 5. Homeric receptions. Homer and Greek literature / Richard Hunter ; Roman Homer / Joseph Farrell ; Homer and English epic / Penelope Wilson ; Homer and the Romantics / Timothy Webb ; Homer and Ulysses / Vanda Zajko ; Homer : the history of an idea / James I. Porter ; "Shards and suckers" : contemporary receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick ; Homer in English translation / George Steiner. |
| Subject |
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Homer. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Subject |
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Fowler, R. L. (Robert Louis), 1954-
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| ISBN |
0521813026 |
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9780521813020 |
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0521012465 paperback |
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9780521012461 paperback |
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