{"product_id":"reading-the-odyssey-selected-interpretive-essays-9780691044392","title":"Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic's distinctive conception of heroism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the introduction, Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches, some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pietro Pucci, and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin, two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler, and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher, Karl Reinhardt, and Vernant. The result is a collection that juxtaposes older, often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeth L. Schein\u003c\/i\u003e is Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at the University of California, Davis. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's \"Iliad\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844939026706,"sku":"9780691044392","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef0e1d19-6d46-4764-81de-f9335ea53e10.jpg?v=1737336964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-the-odyssey-selected-interpretive-essays-9780691044392","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}