Homer and the Epic - A Shortened Version of ''The Songs of Homer''

Klappentext A shortened! rearranged version of The Songs of Homer! an account of the background and development of the Homeric poems. Zusammenfassung This is a shortened! rearranged version of The Songs of Homer! Professor Kirk's account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. While the essential attitudes and arguments of the earlier work have been retained! several sections have been reduced! the order has been changed and the number of chapters increased. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. The Oral Epic: 1. The Homeric poems are oral; 2. Homer and modern oral poetry; Part II. The Historical Background: 3. The rise of Mycenae; 4. Life in a Late Bronze Age palace-state; 5. From the Achaean decline to the time of Homer; Part III. The Prehistory of the Homeric Tradition: 6. Poetical possibilities of the Dark Age; 7. Was there Achaean epic poetry?; 8. Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements; Part IV. The Iliad and Odyssey as Monumental Poems: 9. Some basic qualities; 10. The Iliad; 11. The Odyssey; Part V. The Style, Language and Material Background of the Iliad and Odyssey: 12. Subjects and styles; 13. The criterion of language; 14. Differences of material culture; Part VI. Diversity and Unity in the Large-Scale Plot: 15. Structural difficulties in the Iliad; 16. Structural difficulties in the Odyssey; 17. Unity, real and imaginary; Part VII. How the Poems Developed: 18. The circumstances of monumental composition; 19. Two crucial phases of transmission; 20. The process of development; References; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: G. S. Kirk, Kirk G. S.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.1965
• EAN: 9780521093569
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09356-9
• Pagine: 252
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form