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"What virtue and wisdom can do": Homer's "Odyssey" in the Renaissance imagination.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	"What virtue and wisdom can do": Homer's "Odyssey" in the Renaissance imagination./
作者:	Van der Laan, Sarah Phillips.
面頁冊數:	289 p.
附註:	Adviser: David Quint.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-01A.
標題:	Literature, Classical. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3342688
ISBN:	9780549977650

"What virtue and wisdom can do": Homer's "Odyssey" in the Renaissance imagination.
Van der Laan, Sarah Phillips.

"What virtue and wisdom can do": Homer's "Odyssey" in the Renaissance imagination. - 289 p.

Adviser: David Quint.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

If the Iliad is a poem about what it is to be mortal, the Odyssey is a poem about what it is to be human. The Odyssey charts the attempts of one man and his world to reassemble the fragments of their lives after a devastating war. It is no historical accident that this vision of the Odyssey became central to late Renaissance literature and criticism. The Odyssey presented opportunities to interrogate the possibilities and limits of the humanist ethos so enthusiastically propounded during the first heady decades of the Renaissance and so powerfully challenged by real-world crises. More than any other epic, the Odyssey provided a potential foundation for a poetic ethics---tools for living developed in poetry---for belated, post-war, post-humanist societies. This dissertation explores the use of the Odyssey in the Renaissance epic tradition; in doing so, it assembles readings of these individual works into a narrative that traces the rediscovery and repeated reinvention of the Odyssey through several countries and two centuries.

ISBN: 9780549977650Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

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