{"product_id":"reading-the-odyssey-9780691044392","title":"Reading the Odyssey","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth L. Schein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955750539382,"sku":"9780691044392","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_39d7e0f0-598f-4ecc-b28f-93a0132d233e.jpg?v=1767703059","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/reading-the-odyssey-9780691044392","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}