Epic Facework: Self-Presentation and Social Interaction in Homer (Archaic & Classical Greece) - Hardcover

Scodel, Ruth

 
9781905125227: Epic Facework: Self-Presentation and Social Interaction in Homer (Archaic & Classical Greece)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1905125224 ISBN 13: 9781905125227
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Homer's characters are often very far from an unreflecting struggle for status at others' expense. Rather than being a 'zero-sum game', their negotiations can be of an impressive delicacy, designed to protect the 'face' of the other. Gifts and visible deference are important measures of honour, but characters also care about what others really feel. This sensitive study reveals that at the beginnings of (surviving) Greek literature Homer's audience is expected to appreciate psychology and self-control of a very high order. Literary analysts, historians, anthropologists and indeed archaeologists will have much to learn here about the general level of sophistication of the historic and prehistoric societies which generated such deeply civilized poetry.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ruth Scodel is the author of Listening to Homer (2002), Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy (1999), and many other books and articles, mostly on Greek poetry. She is the co-author with Anja Bettenworth of Whither Quo Vadis? Sienkiewicz's Novel in Film and Television (2008). Scodel is D.R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She edited Transactions of the American Philological Association from 1987 to 1991, and is an editor of the series Texte und Kommentare. In 2007 she was President of the American Philological Association.

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Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1905125224
ISBN 13 
9781905125227
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
177
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