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Homer's Cosmic Fabrication : Choice and Design in the Iliad.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Society for Classical Studies American Classical StudiesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199712427
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Homer's Cosmic FabricationDDC classification:
  • 883/.0109
LOC classification:
  • PA4037.H425 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations Frequently Used in the Figures -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Reading, Choice, and Design -- PART I: DRAMATIC LEGIBILITY AND POETIC DESIGN -- 1. Persons, Problems, and Choices: The Progression of Events in the Iliad -- 2. Event Trajectories in the ''Books'' of the Iliad -- 3. Orientation by Design -- 4. Paths of Thought-Iliad Cycle I -- PART II: READING THEMATIC TRAJECTORIES -- 5. Replacements and Representatives: The Quarrel (Cycle I, Column A) and the Embassy (Cycle II, Column A) -- 6. Zeus's Changing Plans: Cycles I and II, Column Z (Books 8 and 15) -- 7. Homeric Sublimity: Iliad Book 24 -- Conclusion: The Fabricated Cosmos and the Poetry of the Future -- Works Cited -- Index of Passages -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem"; but what makes it the "good read" we know it to be? Bruce Heiden illuminates the epic's artistry and philosophical depth by drawing upon cognitive narratology to develop novel research methods.
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Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations Frequently Used in the Figures -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Reading, Choice, and Design -- PART I: DRAMATIC LEGIBILITY AND POETIC DESIGN -- 1. Persons, Problems, and Choices: The Progression of Events in the Iliad -- 2. Event Trajectories in the ''Books'' of the Iliad -- 3. Orientation by Design -- 4. Paths of Thought-Iliad Cycle I -- PART II: READING THEMATIC TRAJECTORIES -- 5. Replacements and Representatives: The Quarrel (Cycle I, Column A) and the Embassy (Cycle II, Column A) -- 6. Zeus's Changing Plans: Cycles I and II, Column Z (Books 8 and 15) -- 7. Homeric Sublimity: Iliad Book 24 -- Conclusion: The Fabricated Cosmos and the Poetry of the Future -- Works Cited -- Index of Passages -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem"; but what makes it the "good read" we know it to be? Bruce Heiden illuminates the epic's artistry and philosophical depth by drawing upon cognitive narratology to develop novel research methods.

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