Homer. - GRAZIOSI, Barabara,
KORTE INHOUD
''Homer' is a book written by Barbara Graziosi in the setting of the research project Living Poets: 'A New Approach to Ancient Poetry (Living Poets)'. The project, financed by the European Research Council, proposes to investigate how, over the centuries, readers imagined the classical poets, and how the biographies and representations they produced influenced the comprehension of the works of these poets, reconfiguring their value and meaning as a function of specific historical-cultural contexts. The application of this investigative scheme to Homer, a poet that many readers know ?primarily through echoes and refractions in other poems, novels, plays, and works of art ? as well as through the ubiquitous myth of the author? (p. 2), has two fundamental objectives, clearly indicated in the ?Introduction?: to provide an overall view of Homeric studies, examining the basic questions about the author of the poems, their composition and transmission; to show how certain images of Homer conditioned the interpretati...
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2016Uitgever: Oxford University Press154 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0198788304ISBN-13: 9780198788300Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Oxford, 2016. 2nd impr. X,154p. Hardbound with dust wrps. [New] [Auteur: GRAZIOSI, Barabara,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: Homer.]
