By Irene J. F. de Jong

ISBN-10: 0521464781

ISBN-13: 9780521464789

ISBN-10: 0521468442

ISBN-13: 9780521468442

while conventional commentaries are usually accomplished and micro-textual, this narratological statement, first released in 2001, makes a speciality of one element of the Odyssey, its narrativity, and will pay lavish cognizance to the meso- and macro-levels. Drawing at the strategies of recent narratology in addition to the insights of Homeric scholarship, it discusses the position of narrator and narratees, equipment of characterization and outline, plot-development, focalization, and the narrative exploitation of type-scenes. complete realization is usually given to the constitution, characterizing functionality, and relation to the narrative context of the abundantly current speeches. ultimately, the varied issues and motifs, which so subtly give a contribution to the solidarity of this lengthy textual content, are traced and evaluated. even though Homer's really good narrative paintings has continually been trendy, this remark goals to put naked the innovations answerable for this brilliance. All Greek is translated and all technical phrases defined in a glossary.

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