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UNINA9910462702903321 |
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Autore |
Mueller Martin <1939-> |
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The Iliad / / Martin Mueller |
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London : , : Bristol Classical Press, , 2009 |
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1-4725-2117-X |
1-4725-2118-8 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bristol classical paperbacks |
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Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism |
Trojan War - Literature and the war |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previous ed.: London: Allen & Unwin, 1984. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index. |
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The Plot of the Iliad -- Fighting in the Iliad -- The simile -- The gods -- The Composition of the Iliad -- The Life of the Iliad. |
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No Western text boasts a life as long as the ""Iliad"", and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer''s poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry. Professor Mueller follows Plato and Aristotle in seeing the plot of the ""Iliad"" as a distinctly Homeric ''invention'' which shaped Attic tragedy and the concept of dramatic action in Western literature. In this second edition the text has been revised in many places, and a new chapter on Homeric repet |
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UNINA9910807905303321 |
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Autore |
Scheub Harold |
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The uncoiling python : South African storytellers and resistance / / Harold Scheub |
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Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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Storytelling - South Africa |
Oral tradition - South Africa |
Folklore - Political aspects - South Africa |
Apartheid - South Africa |
South Africa Social life and customs |
South Africa Politics and government |
South Africa Colonization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Metaphor: inevitable encounters, tools for analysis -- San metaphor: "--and feel a story in the wind" -- The Nguni artist: the collapsing of time. |
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There are many collections of African oral traditions, but few as carefully organized as The Uncoiling Python. Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African oral traditions and folklore, explores the ways in which oral traditions have served to combat and subvert colonial domination in South Africa. From the time colonial forces first came to southern Africa in 1487, oral and written traditions have been a bulwark against what became 350 years of colonial rule, characterized by the racist policies of apartheid. The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance is |
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