Homer's The Odyssey / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
| Other author | Bloom, Harold. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Chelsea House, ©2007. |
| Description | 176 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bloom's guides Bloom's guides. ^A769202 |
| Contents | Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Longinus on Homer's sublimity -- Erich Auerbach on homeric style -- Milman Parry on formulary diction -- Simon Goldhill on the proem of the Odyssey -- Pierre Vidal-Naquet on Odysseus' return to humanity -- Jean-Pierre Vermant on heroic refusal of immortality -- Jean Starobinski on the inside and the outside -- Froma I. Zeitlin on fidelity -- Charles Segal on the episode of the sirens -- Helen P. Foley on the "reverse silile" and gender relations -- Pietro Pucci on the iliadic lion and the odyssean lion -- Sheila Murnaghan on Odysseus' capacity for disguise -- Works by Homer. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006031093 |
| ISBN | 0791092992 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780791092996 (hardcover) |