Bibliograph

Homer's The Odyssey, edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Type

Label

Homer's The Odyssey, edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-165) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Homer's The Odyssey

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71809984

Responsibility statement

edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Series statement

Bloom's guides

Table Of Contents

Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Longinus on Homer's sublimity -- Erich Auerbach on homeric style -- Milman Parry on formulary diction -- Simon Goldhill on the proem of the Odyssey -- Pierre Vidal-Naquet on Odysseus' return to humanity -- Jean-Pierre Vermant on heroic refusal of immortality -- Jean Starobinski on the inside and the outside -- Froma I. Zeitlin on fidelity -- Charles Segal on the episode of the sirens -- Helen P. Foley on the "reverse silile" and gender relations -- Pietro Pucci on the iliadic lion and the odyssean lion -- Sheila Murnaghan on Odysseus' capacity for disguise -- Works by Homer

Target audience

adult

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