{"product_id":"the-song-of-the-sirens-essays-on-homer-greek-studies-interdisciplinary-approaches-9780822630593","title":"The Song of the Sirens Essays on Homer Greek","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet''s works.  Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer''s rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePucci's work is clear enough to recommend it to upper-division undergraduates as well as researchers, and even to those who doubt the contributions of these theoristsssss * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003ePucci's work is clear enough to recommend it to upper-division undergraduates as well as researchers, and even to those who doubt the contributions of these theorists * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 The Song of the Sirens Chapter 4 The Proem of the Odyssey Chapter 5 The Language of the Muses Chapter 6 Banter and Banquets for Heroic Death Chapter 7 Textual Epiphanies Chapter 8 Epiphanic Strategy and Intertextuality Chapter 9 Antiphonal Lament","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038664687959,"sku":"9780822630593","price":41.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822630593.jpg?v=1750940977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-song-of-the-sirens-essays-on-homer-greek-studies-interdisciplinary-approaches-9780822630593","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}