HOMER'S ILIAD: The Shield of Memory
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1978
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Hardcover with light wear, clean, light foxing to top edge of text block, well bound, front flyleaf taken out, occasional ink markings which do not overwhelm the pages; the book is otherwise clean. General wear to dust jacket. A very good reading/study copy.
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- Title
- HOMER'S ILIAD: The Shield of Memory
- Author
- Kenneth John Atchity / Foreword by John Gardner
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809308096
- ISBN 13
- 9780809308095
- Seller catalogs
- classics
?The central image of Homers great epic story of the wrath of Achilles, Atchity writes in his Introduction to this brilliant new study of the poems structure, ?is the invulnerable shield made for the poems hero at the Olympian forge of Hephaistos. Atchitys subsequent revelation of the imagery as the guiding aesthetic provides a complete interpretation of the Iliad from the viewpoint of image and theme.
The major portion of Atchitys new interpretation is devoted to a comparison of the characters of Helen and Achilles, around whom center, Atchity shows, ?galaxies of characters and images that can be identified in orderly or disorderly terms, the relationship of which is the theme of the Iliad. In addition, Atchity pays particular attention to the poems presentation of the art of words, thus making clear the relationship of memory, cognition, and action in the epic tradition.
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About the Author
Kenneth John Atchity is Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
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