{"product_id":"reading-the-odyssey-9780691044392","title":"Reading the Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poems programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and  in particular  of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad  especially to that epics distinctive conception of heroism.  In the introduction  Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches  some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant  Pierre Vidal-Naquet  Pietro Pucci  and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin  two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler  and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher  Karl Reinhardt  and Vernant. The result is a collection that juxtaposes older  often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495994417205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691044392","price":29.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691044392.jpg?v=1780905658","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/reading-the-odyssey-9780691044392","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}