Homer Beside Himself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homer Beside Himself write by Maureen Alden. This book was released on 2001-03-08. Homer Beside Himself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects contained in it. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly, and to be complicated by long speeches containing stories which might be interesting in themselves, but which seem to have no relevance to anything else. In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary narratives and minor-key episodes in the Iliad. None of these are irrelevant or merely ornamental: rather each is carefully selected and altered if necessary, to reflect on significant episodes of the main narrative and act as guides to its interpretation. The second section offers a general reading of the Iliad arising out of Phoenix's advice to Achilles in Book 9. The allegory of the Prayers illustrates the dire consequences of rejecting prayers, and the paradigm of Meleager presents us with an instance of an angry hero to whom prayers and entreaties are addressed, whilst the primary narrative confines this motif of prayers and entreaties in ascending scale of affection to Achilles and Hector and contrasts their responses. Both heroes suffer terribly for their rejection of entreaties.
Homer Beside Himself
Homer Beside Himself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homer Beside Himself write by Maureen Joan Alden. This book was released on 2000. Homer Beside Himself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Para-Narratives in the Odyssey
Para-Narratives in the Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Para-Narratives in the Odyssey write by Maureen Alden. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Para-Narratives in the Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his characters, including Odysseus' own fantastic tales of Lotus Eaters, Sirens, and cannibal giants. Although these 'para-narratives' are a source of pleasure and entertainment in their own right, each also has a special relevance to its immediate context, elucidating Odysseus' predicament and also subtly influencing and guiding the audience's reception of the main story. By exploring variations on the basic story-shape, drawing on familiar tales, anecdotes, and mythology, or inserting analogous situations, they create illuminating parallels to the main narrative and prompt specific responses in readers or listeners. This is the case even when details are suppressed or altered, as the audience may still experience the reverberations of the better-known version of the tradition, and it also applies to the characters themselves, who are often provided with a model of action for imitation or avoidance in their immediate contexts.
Homer's Cosmic Fabrication
Homer's Cosmic Fabrication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homer's Cosmic Fabrication write by Bruce Heiden. This book was released on 2008-11-17. Homer's Cosmic Fabrication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral" poem, since very near the time of its composition the great epic has circulated as a text stabilized in writing and popular with readers for study as well as enjoyment. What makes the Iliad the "good read" we know it to be? In Homer's Cosmic Fabrication Bruce Heiden delineates a new approach aimed at evaluating what the Iliad furnishes to readers thatmakes it comprehensible and engaging. His program draws upon cognitive narratology to develop novel research that illuminate the epic's artistry and philosophical depth.
Homer: Iliad Book VI
Homer: Iliad Book VI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homer: Iliad Book VI write by Barbara Graziosi. This book was released on 2010-11-04. Homer: Iliad Book VI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though fighting on opposite sides, recognise an ancient bond of hospitality and exchange gifts on the battlefield. It then follows Hector as he enters the city of Troy and meets the most important people in his life: his mother, Helen and Paris, and finally his wife and baby son. It is above all through the loving and fraught encounter between Hector and Andromache that Homer exposes the horror of war. This edition is suitable for undergraduates at all levels, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and is intended for all readers interested in Homer.
