Unweaving the Odyssey

Unweaving the Odyssey
Author :
Publisher : University of London Press
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0854572708
ISBN-13 : 9780854572700
Rating : 4/5 (700 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Unweaving the Odyssey by : Rebecca May Johnson

Download or read book Unweaving the Odyssey written by Rebecca May Johnson and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you fathom a bottomless abyss? How can you capture ineffable beauty in words? How do you narrate the master of all stories? These are the challenges that seasoned poet Konrad von W rzburg set himself when at the end of the 13th century he composed his account of the Trojan War from a multitude of sources. Konrad has long been recognized as an exceptionally self-conscious author who frequently reflects on the nature, status and function of poetry, and who at times appears more concerned with the sparkling surface of his discourse than with the events he narrates. Taking these observations as a starting point, this study presents the first comprehensive treatment of metapoetics in the Trojanerkrieg. Focusing on traditional and often discussed loci of metapoetic significance, it also uncovers the far-reaching network of explicit and implicit metapoetic expression that permeates the text on every level - even though its multifaceted imagery and arguments resist translation into the language of formal literary theory. The fact that Konrad's metapoetic vocabulary regularly draws on imagery of religious origin offers a new perspective from which to address the controversial question of the Christian author's attitude towards the pagan splendour of the narrated world. In highlighting the pitfalls of metapoetic interpretation and mapping out possible conceptualizations of textuality, language and poetry in Middle High German poetry as well as the relationship between secular and religious literature, this study also makes a broader contribution to medieval literary studies.


Unweaving the Odyssey Related Books

Unweaving the Odyssey
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Rebecca May Johnson
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: University of London Press

GET EBOOK

How can you fathom a bottomless abyss? How can you capture ineffable beauty in words? How do you narrate the master of all stories? These are the challenges tha
A Penelopean Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Barbara Clayton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Lexington Books

GET EBOOK

A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics fo the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. Her poeti
The Odyssey
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Homer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

GET EBOOK

Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before
Reading the Odyssey
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Seth L. Schein
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-16 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half centur
Eve of the Festival
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Olga Levaniouk
Categories: Epic poetry, Greek
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

GET EBOOK

Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for