Homer's The Odyssey
By: edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780791092996
Subjects: Homer; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biographical sketch; title: The story behind the story; title: List of characters; title: Summary and analysis; title: Critical views; title: Longinus on Homer's sublimity; title: Erich Auerbach on homeric style; title: Milman Parry on formulary diction; title: Simon Goldhill on the proem of the Odyssey; title: Pierre Vidal-Naquet on Odysseus' return to humanity; title: Jean-Pierre Vermant on heroic refusal of immortality; title: Jean Starobinski on the inside and the outside; title: Froma I. Zeitlin on fidelity; title: Charles Segal on the episode of the sirens; title: Helen P. Foley on the "reverse silile" and gender relations; title: Pietro Pucci on the iliadic lion and the odyssean lion; title: Sheila Murnaghan on Odysseus' capacity for disguise; title: Works by Homer.