The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) [Hardcover]

Pietro Pucci (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0822630583 | ISBN-13: 978-0822630586

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 poet's 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 Homer's 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 theorists (Choice )

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).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (December 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822630583
• ISBN-13: 978-0822630586
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,960,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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