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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: making of the Odyssey
  name:
    name part: West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield)
    name part: 1937-2015
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 315 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and for introducing naturalistic elements into epic dialogue and a grand architectural plan for the poem. He was also a slapdash artist, often copying verses from the Iliad or from himself without close attention to their suitability. With various possible ways of telling the story bubbling up in his mind, he creates a narrative marked by constant inconsistency of detail. He is a fluent composer who delights in prolonging his tale with subsidiary episodes, yet his deployment of the epic language is often inept and sometimes simply unintelligible. This book is a penetrating study of the background, composition and artistry of the Homeric Odyssey. Martin West places the poem in its late seventh-century context in relation to the Iliad and other poetry of the time. He also investigates the traditions that lie behind it, the origins of the figure of Odysseus and folk tales such as those of the One-eyed ogre and the Husband's return.
  note: M.L. West.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-310) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
      name part: Odysseus
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Greek
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric, Ancient
  classification: 480
  identifier: 9780198718369
  identifier: 0198718365
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 140317
    record change date: 20181006063309.0
    record identifier: in00003498541