Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan L. Ready is an assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (2007) and of a number of articles that have appeared in classics journals including Transactions of the American Philological Association and the American Journal of Philology. Klappentext This book presents the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. Zusammenfassung Jonathan L. Ready demonstrates that Homer uses similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. In addition to presenting the first sustained critical exploration of similes spoken by characters! Ready investigates similes the narrator uses to describe battles and provides a new way to account for their length. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The simile and the Homeric comparative spectrum; 2. Similes and likenesses in the character-text; 3. A preparation for reading sequences of similes; 4. Sequences of similes in the character-text; 5. Narrator, character, and simile; 6. Similes in the narrator-text; Conclusion: the Odyssey compared.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan L. Ready, Jonathan L. (Indiana University) Ready, Ready Jonathan L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521190640
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19064-0
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets