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The Song of the Sirens: Essays on Homer
Author(s): Pietro Pucci (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 1997
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0822630591
- ISBN-13: 9780822630593
Book Description
In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poets works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homers rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.
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Pucci”s work is clear enough to recommend it to upper-division undergraduates as well as researchers, and even to those who doubt the contributions of these theoristsssss
Pucci”s work is clear enough to recommend it to upper-division undergraduates as well as researchers, and even to those who doubt the contributions of these theorists
About the Author
Pietro Pucci is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Among his works are Odysseus Polutropos: Intertextual Readings in the Odysseyand in the Iliad (1987) and Hesiod and the Language of Poetry (1977).
