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Homer. --- Homer. --- Odyssey (Homer).
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Homer. --- Homer. --- Iliad (Homer). --- Odyssey (Homer).
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"This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What is lost in the journey from the stage to the page? Readers may be readily impressed by the vividness of the poems, but they may miss out on the strange presence or uncanniness that the performer evoked in ancient audience members such as Plato and Aristotle. This book focuses on the performer not simply as transparent mediator, but as one haunted by multiple stories and presences, who brings suppressed voices to the surface. Performance is inextricable from all aspects of the poems, from image to structure to background story. Background stories previously neglected, even in some of the most familiar passages (such as Phoenix's speech in Iliad 9) are brought to the surface, and passages readers tend to rush through (such as Odysseus's encounter with Eumaeus) are shown to have some of the richest dramatic potential. Attending to performance enlivens isolated features in a given passage by showing how they work together"--
Homer. --- Homerus. --- Homer --- E-books --- Iliad (Homer). --- Odyssey (Homer).
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Homer. --- Odyssey (Homer). --- Kerkyra (Greece). --- Ithaca Island (Greece). --- Greece --- Greece
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Discusses many elements about The Odyssey, the sequel to Homer's equally influential poem The Iliad. This volume explores the themes, structure, artistry, influence, and critical reception of one of the most important works ever composed. --
Epic poetry, Greek --- History and criticism. --- Homer. --- Odyssey (Homer)
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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 responsesin 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 oravoidance in their immediate contexts.
Homer. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Technique. --- Homer --- Odyssey (Homer). --- E-books
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Ships, Ancient. --- Galleys. --- Navigation --- Galleys. --- Navigation. --- Ships, Ancient. --- History. --- Homer. --- Odyssey (Homer).
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Épopées grecques --- Histoire et critique. --- Homer. --- Homer. --- Homer. --- Homer. --- Homère, --- Homerus. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Odyssey (Homer).
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