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7+ YearsPublisher | OUP Oxford |
ISBN 13 | 9780198152859 |
Author | Maureen Alden |
Language | English |
Book Subtitle | Para-Narratives In The Iliad |
Book Description | Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects contained in it. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly, and to be complicated by long speeches containing stories which might be interesting in themselves, but which seem to have no relevance to anything else. In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary narratives and minor-key episodes in the Iliad. None of these are irr |
Publication Date | 24-Feb-13 |
Number of Pages | 400 |
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