The Poetry of Homer (New Edition): Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden (Greek Studies) - Softcover

Bassett, Samuel Eliot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739106961 ISBN 13: 9780739106969

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2003

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Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. Combining a sublime poetic sensitivity with thorough scholarship this work offers original analyses of many topics, including the Homeric narrator's presentation of his story, his evocation of character through direct speech, the organization of speeches and descriptions into vivd dramatic situations, the pacing and emotional weight of similes and narratorial interventions, and the expressive variation in rhythms and word-groupings. A prolific and insightful contributor to Homeric scholarship, Bassett was invited to deliver the Sather Classical Lecture at Berkeley, but he died with the manuscript unpublished. This work, published posthumously in 1938 as The Poetry of Homer, has left its mark on a generation of classicists. Lexington is proud to bring such an important and influential book back into print in this new edition, edited and introduced by Bruce Heiden with a foreword by Greg Nagy.

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S. E. Bassett

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• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0739106961
• ISBN 13: 9780739106969
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Heiden Bruce
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