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Fighting Words and Feuding Words - Anger and the Homeric Poems

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Informationen zum Autor By Thomas R. Walsh Klappentext Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Walsh argues that kotos and kholos locate two focal points for the study of aggression in Homeric poetry, the first presenting Homer's terms for feud and the second providing the native terms that designates the martial violence highlighted by the Homeric tradition. Zusammenfassung Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Homeric Anger Part 3 Feuding Words Chapter 4 The Prophet Defines Chapter 5 Forms and Formulae Chapter 6 Kotos and Social Status Chapter 7 Anger's History: Kotos and Etymology Chapter 8 Anger's Aggression: The Wrath of Feud Part 9 Fighting Words Chapter 10 Helen's Cure and the End of Anger Chapter 11 The Beginning of Kholos Chapter 12 Fighting Words Chapter 13 Fighting Deeds Chapter 14 The Embassy, Kholos, and the Illiad's Genre Chapter 15 The Cultural Poetics of Kholos in the Illiad Chapter 16 Conclusions and a Comparison

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Authors Thomas R. Walsh
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 11.07.2005
 
EAN 9780739112557
ISBN 978-0-7391-1255-7
No. of pages 316
Series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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