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Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad

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This study of the gooi or personal laments in Homer???s Iliad once and for all articulates the poetic techniques regulating this type of speech. Going beyond the tendency to view lament as a repetitive and group-based activity, this work shows instead the primacy of the goos , a sub-genre which the Iliad has "produced" by absorbing the funerary genre of lament. Oral theory, narratology, semiotics, rhetorical analysis are deftly applied to explore the ways personal laments develop principal epic themes and unravel ...

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Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad 2004, de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

ISBN-13: 9783110179446

Reprint 2012 edition

Hardcover