Author: Norman AustinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Archery at the Dark of the Moon
Author: Norman AustinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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California studies in classical antiquity
Author: William S. AndersonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520040557
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Archery at the Dark of the Moon
Author: Norman AustinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Homer's Odyssey and the Near East
Author: Bruce LoudenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, and Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes - hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members - reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular the book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the Gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem.
Chora 3
Author: Alberto Pérez GómezPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773517127
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This collection on the philosophy of architecture is intended for historians and theorists of architecture, and anyone interested in issues of space, body, and architectural meaning.
Siren Songs
Author: Lillian Eileen DohertyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A feminist critique of the Odyssey
Robert Duncan
Author: Robert DuncanPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520324862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid- and late- 20th-century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books from this period: The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work. The biographical and critical introduction discusses Duncan as a late Romantic and postmodern American writer; his formulation of a homosexual poetics; his development of the serial poem; the notation and centrality of sound as organizing principle; his relations with such fellow poets as Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Jack Spicer; his indebtedness to Alfred North Whitehead; and his collaborations with the painter Jess Collins, his lifelong partner. Texts include his anti-war poems of the 1960s and 70s, his homages to Dante and other canonical poets, and his translations from the French of Gérard de Nerval, as well as the complete Structure of Rime and Passages series.
Classics and Translation
Author: D. S. Carne-RossPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838757669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
D. S. Carne-Ross (1921-2010) was one of the finest critics of classical literature in English translation after Arnold. More than four decades of Carne-Ross's writings are represented in this volume, which includes criticism of both ancient and modern writers, in addition to historical-critical studies of translation, discriminating analyses of translators widely read today, and investigations in the relationship between translation, criticism, and literary creation. This book will appeal to a wide audience including classicists, specialists in reception and translation studies, students of comparative literature, and literary readers. --
Archery at the Dark of the Moon
Author: Norman AustinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520047907
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence
Author: Jeffrey BarnouwPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761830269
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In dramatic representations and narrative reports of inner deliberation the Odyssey displays the workings of the human mind and its hero's practical intelligence, epitomized by anticipating consequences and controlling his actions accordingly. Once his hope of returning home as husband, father and king is renewed on Calypso's isle, Odysseus shows a consistent will to focus on this purpose and subordinate other impulses to it. His fabled cleverness is now fully engaged in a gradually emerging plan, as he thinks back from that final goal through a network of means to achieve it. He relies on "signs"--inferences in the form "if this, then that" as defined by the Stoic Chrysippus--and the nature of his intelligence is thematically underscored through contrast with others' recklessness, that is, failure to heed signs or reckon consequences. In Homeric deliberation, the mind is torn between competing options or intentions, not between "reason" and "desire." The lack of distinct opposing faculties and hierarchical organization in the Homeric mind, far from archaic simplicity, prefigures the psychology of Chrysippus, who cites deliberation scenes from the Odyssey against Plato's hierarchical tri-partite model. From the Stoics, there follows a psychological tradition leading through Hobbes and Leibniz, to Peirce and Dewey. These thinkers are drawn upon to show the significance of the conception of "thinking" first articulated in the Odyssey. Homer's work inaugurates an approach that has provoked philosophical conflict persisting into the present, and opposition to pragmatism and Pragmatism can be discerned in prominent critiques of Homer and his hero which are analyzed and countered in this study.