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Arete And The Odysseys Poetics Of Interrogation The Queen And Her Question Justin Arft

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Publisher: OUP Oxford

File Extension: MOBI

File size: 1.37 MB

Author: Justin Arft

ISBN: 9780197654934, ea1fb035-a2b2-4765-acf0-5d27327fc03c, 9780197654934, EA1FB035-A2B2-4765-ACF0-5D27327FC03C

Language: English

Year: 2022

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Arete And The Odysseys Poetics Of Interrogation The Queen And Her Question Justin Arft by Justin Arft 9780197654934, ea1fb035-a2b2-4765-acf0-5d27327fc03c, 9780197654934, EA1FB035-A2B2-4765-ACF0-5D27327FC03C instant download after payment.

Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corporashow that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete'srole as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos,...