Homer's Cosmic Fabrication - Choice and Design in the Lliad

Zusatztext Homer's Cosmic Fabrication is a comprehensive work of considerable originality that not only succeeds in making sense of the Iliad's structure! but renders it in a theoretical framework that takes account of variations in the literary transaction as experienced by different readers! without sacrificing the search for a unifying (as opposed to a univocal) reading. The way Heiden argues that the poem was designed for reading adds a whole newdimension to a long-standing and heated argument and! I believe! may be effective in reorienting debate. Klappentext Scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem"; but what makes it the "good read" we know it to be? Bruce Heiden illuminates the epic's artisty and philosophical depth by drawing upon cognitive narratology to develop novel research methods. Zusammenfassung Scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem"; but what makes it the "good read" we know it to be? Bruce Heiden illuminates the epic's artisty and philosophical depth by drawing upon cognitive narratology to develop novel research methods.

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• Authors: Heiden, Bruce Heiden, Bruce (Associate Professor of Greek and Latin Heiden
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2008
• EAN: 9780195341072
• ISBN: 978-0-19-534107-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: American Philological Association Philological Monographs; American Philological Associat; Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies; American Philological Associat; American Philological Association Philological Monographs; Society for Classical Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History