Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad

Why do people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters? This is the first book to apply to the Iliad research in communications, literary studies, media studies, and psychology on how readers of a story or viewers of a play, movie, or television show find themselves immersed in the tale and identify with the characters.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• 1: Introduction


• Identification and the Iliad


• 2: The Study of Identification


• 3: Prompts for (a Study of) Identifying with Characters


• 4: Identification with Mortals and Gods


• Immersion and the Iliad


• 5: Ancients and Moderns on Immersion


• 6: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Immersion


• 7: Emotional Immersion


• 8: Content and Form


• 9: Conclusion


• Works Cited


• Index of Greek Passages


• Index of Terms

About the author

Jonathan L. Ready is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the University of Miami and at Indiana University. He is co-editor of Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (University of Texas Press 2018), and he co-edits the annual Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (Brill).

Summary

Why do people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters? This is the first book to apply to the Iliad research in communications, literary studies, media studies, and psychology on how readers of a story or viewers of a play, movie, or television show find themselves immersed in the tale and identify with the characters.

Additional text

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan L. Ready, Prof Jonathan L. (Professor of Classical St Ready
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2023
• EAN: 9780192870971
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287097-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts