Homer's The Odyssey / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Other author Bloom, Harold.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Chelsea House, ©2007.
Description176 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesBloom'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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index.
LCCN 2006031093
ISBN0791092992 (hardcover)
ISBN9780791092996 (hardcover)