Homer's The Odyssey
By: [edited by] Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Bloom's Modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Homer; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Transition and ritual in Odysseus' return / Charles Segal; title: Odysseus and the genus "hero" / Margalit Finkelberg; title: The wanderings / S. Douglas Olson; title: Internal narrators, female and male / Lillian Eileen Doherty; title: Penelope as moral agent / Helene P. Foley; title: Rival homecomings / Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman; title: Penelope's perspective : character from plot / Nancy Felson-Rubin; title: The structures of The Odyssey / Stephen V. Tracy; title: Kalypso and the function of Book Five / Bruce Louden; title: In the beginning was Proteus / Mark Buchan; title: Reweaving identities : Odysseus' lies and the tale of the scar / Barbara Clayton; title: The stakes of the plot / Richard Heitman.