The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 The Song of the Sirens Chapter 4 The Proem of the Odyssey Chapter 5 The Language of the Muses Chapter 6 Banter and Banquets for Heroic Death Chapter 7 Textual Epiphanies Chapter 8 Epiphanic Strategy and Intertextuality Chapter 9 Antiphonal Lament

About the author

By Pietro Pucci

Product details

• Authors: Pietro Pucci
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.1997
• EAN: 9780822630593
• ISBN: 978-0-8226-3059-3
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form