Homer's allusive art
Homer's Allusive Art argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through a series of interlocking case studies, exploring whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh through to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses.
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- Full title :Homer's allusive art / Bruno Currie.
Summary
Homer's Allusive Art argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through a series of interlocking case studies, exploring whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh through to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses.
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- Publication Date:©2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 343 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198768821, 0198768826
- oclc:ocn939703513
- LC Classification:PA4037
- Dewey Decimal:883/.01
Table of Contents
Homer and allusive art -- The Homeric epics and their forerunners -- The archaic hymns to Demeter -- Pregnant tears and poetic memory -- Allusion in Greek and Near Eastern mythological poetry -- Epilogue : traditional art and allusive art.
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