Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Ancient Greek Literature - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 17th Century - Literary Criticism, Italian Poetry - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Italian Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Cri
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Overview
Barbara Pavlock here illuminates the significance of the erotic in the epic tradition from Alexandrian Greece to the late Renaissance by examining the transformations of two Homeric episodes, Odysseus' encounter with Nausikaa and the night-raid of Odysseus and Diomedes. Asserting that the erotic serves in the epic as a locus of criticism of social values, she traces adaptations in rhetorical devices, in larger structural patterns, and in major generic forms, as in the combination of tragic with epic models.Book Details
Published
February 8, 1990
Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Pages
230
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780801423215