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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Para-narratives in the Odyssey
    sub title: stories in the frame
  name:
    name part: Alden, Maureen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 424 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his characters, including Odysseus' own fantastic tales of Lotus Eaters, Sirens, and cannibal giants. Although these 'para-narratives' are a source of pleasure and entertainment in their own right, each also has a special relevance to its immediate context, elucidating Odysseus' predicament and also subtly influencing and guiding the audience's reception of the main story. By exploring variations on the basic story-shape, drawing on familiar tales, anecdotes, and mythology, or inserting analogous situations, they create illuminating parallels to the main narrative and prompt specific responses in readers or listeners. This is the case even when details are suppressed or altered, as the audience may still experience the reverberations of the better-known version of the tradition, and it also applies to the characters themselves, who are often provided with a model of action for imitation or avoidance in their immediate contexts."--
  note: Maureen Alden.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-368) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Homer
    topic: Technique
  classification: PA4167.A2 A43 2017
  classification: 480
  identifier: 9780199291069
  identifier: 0199291063
  identifier: 2017935263
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 170220
    record change date: 20180214142627.0
    record identifier: in00003924042
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng