The poetics of supplication
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
by Kevin Crotty
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In this penetrating and compelling reinterpretation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Kevin Crotty explores the connection between the "poetic" nature of supplication on the one hand, and, on the other, the importance of supplication in the structure and poetics of the two epics. The suppliant's attempt to rouse pity by calling to mind a vivid sense of grief, he says, is important for an understanding of the poems, which invite their audience to contemplate scenes of past grieving.
A poetics of supplication, Crotty asserts, leads irresistibly to a poetics of the Homeric epic.
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The poetics of supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
1994, Cornell University Press
in English
0801429986 9780801429989
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and indexes.
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