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Opis

This book provides a current reading of the Shield of Achilles in the Iliad. Looking to combat views that regard aspects of the passage as confused and inessential, I hope to demonstrate the different ways in which this passage is important to the understanding of the greater epic. My first chapter provides a scene-by-scene analysis of the Shield passage, incorporating many of the views held by modern scholarship, arguing that the Shield works as a reflexive centerpiece within the poem, concentrating key themes and recalling crucial scenes at a climactic moment in the epic's narrative. My second chapter explores how the Shield, as the earliest example of an extended ekphrasis in Western culture, provides a sophisticated comment upon the nature of art, and explores the inferences that can be made from the description of a creative process within a poem performed in an oral tradition. My final chapter examines the Shield's political scenes arguing that the Shield passage provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Iliad as an early work of political thought and evidence of the nascent city-state.

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• Pełny tytuł: The Art of Poetics and Politics: The Shield of Achilles
• Autor: Ben Street
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 52
• EAN: 9783659919756
• ID: 13788226
• Wydawca: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Waga: 94 g
• Wymiary: 220 × 150 × 3 mm
• Rok wydania: 2016

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