Penelope's renown : meaning and indeterminacy in the Odyssey
1991, 1st edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #389383
ISBN: 0691067961
Series: Princeton legacy library. Physical Description: xii, 223 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Indeterminancy and interpretation; Indeterminancy and narrative construction; The Odyssey and its readers; The construction of absence (Books 1-4, 11); Kleos in the Odyssey; The house of Atreus story and Penelope's Kyrieia (Books 1-4); Penelope and Clytemnestra: the first Nekyia (Book 11); Coming home/going home (Books 13, 15, 16);
Warnings about Penelope (Books 13, 15); Telemachus's Kleos; From Nostos to Xenia (Book 16); What does Penelope want? (Books 18-19); The appearance before the suitors (Book 18); The character of Penelope's character (Book 19); The construction of presence (Books 17-21); Narrative disjunction and textual disguise (Books 18-19);
Telemachus: maturity and misrepresentation; Penelope: return, remarriage, and Xenia (Book 19); Dream and Toxou thesis; Summary and conclusion; Duplicity, indeterminancy, and the ideology of exclusivity (Book 23); Duplicity, disguise, and indeterminacy; Duplicity and complementarity; The wedding digression (23.117-73); Homophrosyn , anagnorismos, and the ideology of exclusivity; Duplicity, complementarity, and the example of Helen; Conclusion: Indeterminacy in the Odyssey. Subjects: Ancient Greek literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Epic poetry; Greek History and criticism; Homer; Odyssey (Homer); Penelope (Greek mythological character); Mythology.
Price: €21.95