The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sarah Van Der LaanSeries:Classical PresencesPublish date:2024-05-22Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198778295ISBN-10:198778295UPC:9780198778295Book Category:Literary Criticism, MusicBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Poetry, Genres & StylesBook Topic:OperaSize:8.70 x 5.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCBZ883953
The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera
The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics--tools for living developed in poetry--to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets turned to the Odyssey for narratives of recovery and aftermath. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the...
Series: Classical Presences
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198778295ISBN-10:198778295UPC:9780198778295Book Category:Literary Criticism, MusicBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Poetry, Genres & StylesBook Topic:OperaSize:8.70 x 5.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCBZ883953
Sarah Van der Laan, Indiana University Sarah Van der Laan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She received her PhD in Renaissance Studies and English from Yale University and worked as a maître-assistante suppléante in the Département de langue et littérature anglaises of the Université de Genève before moving to Bloomington. Her teaching and research focus on...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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