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The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays

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 1997

Summary

In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.



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Copyright year
1997
ISBN-Print
978-0-8226-3059-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4566-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
251
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Editor's Foreword No access
    3. Preface No access
  1. The Song of the Sirens No access Pages 1 - 10
  2. The Proem of the Odyssey No access Pages 11 - 30
  3. The Language of the Muses No access Pages 31 - 48
    1. The Frame: The Mane in the Royal Figure No access
    2. The Banter No access
    3. What the Lycians Think of the King's Image No access
    4. IIiadic Writing No access
    5. The Structure of Supplementarity No access
    6. The Text's Reading of Itself No access
  4. Textual Epiphanies in the Iliad No access Pages 69 - 80
  5. Epiphanic Strategy and Intertextuality No access Pages 81 - 96
  6. Antiphonal Lament Between Achilles and Briseis No access Pages 97 - 112
  7. The I and the Other in Odysseus's Story of the Cyclopes No access Pages 113 - 130
    1. The Narrator No access
    2. Odysseus's I-Narrative and Odyssean Poetics No access
    3. Between fairy tales and true experience No access
    4. Practical Functions of Odysseus's Narrative No access
    5. Discontinuity Between Narrator and Character No access
    6. The Stories No access
    7. The Cicones No access
    8. The Goats' Island No access
    9. Circe No access
    10. Agamemnon and Achilles No access
    11. The End of the Heroic Race and Tradition No access
    12. The Sirens No access
    1. Two Voices No access
    2. The Word that Gathers Acquiescence No access
    3. The Marginalization of Achilles No access
    4. Existential Rhetoric No access
    5. Illustriousness of Kudos No access
    6. Monumental Glory (Kleos) No access
    7. The Urging of the Heart: Heroic Death No access
    8. Kleos and the Poetry of the Iliad No access
  8. Reference List No access Pages 231 - 242
  9. Index No access Pages 243 - 251

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