The Oral palimpsest : exploring intertextuality in the Homeric epics / Christos C. Tsagalis
- Author:
- Tsagalis, Christos
- Published:
- Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 325 pages) : illustrations
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- nrs.harvard.edu , Free-to-read
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- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Contents:
- Andromache mainomene : the Dionysiac element in the Iliad -- Chariessa and stygere aoide : the self-referential encomium of the Odyssey and the tradition of the Nostoi -- Nausicaa and the Daughters of Anius : terms and limits of epic rivalry -- Intertextual fissures : the returns of Odysseus and the new Penelope -- Achilleus, elenen epithymei theasasthai : from the Cypria to the Iliad -- Viewing from the walls, viewing Helen : language and indeterminacy in the 'Teichoscopia' -- Time games: the 'twenty-year' absent hero -- The formula "nuktos amolgo" : Homeric reflections of an Indo-European metaphor -- Genealogy and imagery of a Homeric formula : pepsyzotes eyte nebroi -- The rhetorics of supplication and the epic intertext (Iliad I 493-516) -- Intertextuality and intratextual distality : Thetis' lament in Iliad XVIII 52-64 -- Mapping the hypertext : similes in Iliad XXII.
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- ISBN:
- 9780674026872
067402687X - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-312) and indexes.
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