Arete And The Odysseys Poetics Of Interrogation

Author : Justin Arft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192663607
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation written by Justin Arft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Author : Justin Tyler Arft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191943188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation written by Justin Tyler Arft and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Arft explores how the Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale 'poetics of interrogation' used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Author : Denton Jaques Snider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer's Odyssey written by Denton Jaques Snider and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elodie Paillard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110716550
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Metatheatre written by Elodie Paillard and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many different, sometimes even contradictory, ways by modern scholars. Through a series of papers examining questions related to ancient Greek theatre and dramatic performances of various genres the use of those two terms is problematized and put into question. Must ancient Greek theatre be reduced to what was performed in proper theatre-buildings? And is everything was performed within such buildings to be considered as ‘theatre’? How does the definition of what is considered as theatre evolve from one period to the other? As for ‘metatheatre’, the discussion revolves around the interaction between reality and fiction in dramatic pieces of all genres. The various definitions of ‘metatheatre’ are also explored and explicited by the papers gathered in this volume, as well as the question of the distinction between paratheatre (understood as paratragedy/comedy) and metatheatre. Readers will be encouraged by the diversity of approaches presented in this book to re-think their own understanding and use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ when examining ancient Greek reality.

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761493
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Asian Mythology written by David Leeming and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the supreme Gautama Buddha, the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesa, and Chang O--the Lunar Toad who is Chinese goddess of the Moon. Journey to the sacred Cambodian ruins of Angkor and golden Mount Meru, home of the Hindu gods. Discover myths like the Stone and the Banana of Indonesian origin and the Indian Churning of the Ocean of Milk, and explore archetypal themes such as the hero quest, sacrifice, and descent to the underworld. Myth expert David Leeming plumbs the exotic depths of Eastern spirituality to present a vivid portrait of the many mythologies of the Asian continent. In handy A to Z format, here are the stories of the revered deities, sacred places, key events and epics, and recurring themes and traditions that make up the rich and varied fabric of Asian mythology. Entries address the key mythologies of the regions we now call India, China, Tibet, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Throughout, an extensive network of cross-references highlights the diversity, interrelatedness, and complex beauty of Asia--allowing readers to pursue a particular trail of inquiry or read straight through the compelling entries. Broad overviews of specific cultures and their mythic traditions round out the coverage.

Author : Richard Heinze
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853995798
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgil's Epic Technique written by Richard Heinze and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great German philologist Richard Heinze's Virgils Epische Technik was originally published in German in 1903. It was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a very valuable study of the techniques Virgil used to compose the Aeneid. This English translation by Hazel Harvey, David Harvey and Fred Robertson was published in 1994, with an introduction by Antonie Wlosok.

Author : Odysseus Elytis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880452
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis written by Odysseus Elytis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-22 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 1997, The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis was the fist complete collection of Elytis's poems in any language." "For this expanded new edition, translators Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris have added sixty free verse and prose poems from the posthumous 1998 volume From Close By; a set of song lyrics, The Rhos of Eros; and a cantata, The Sovereign Sun."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807894
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctors written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.

Author : Geert Roskam
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
ISBN 13 : 905867858X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtues for the People written by Geert Roskam and published by Universitaire Pers Leuven. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses Plutarch's writings on practical ethics from different perspectives, including regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions.