Kostas Myrsiades

Autor von Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

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Kostas Myrsiades is a professor emeritus of comparative and Greek literature and a distinguished translator and Neohellenist. He is the recipient of the Gold Medallion from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature (Athens, Greece) and the author of twenty books. He was also the editor of mehr anzeigen College Literature, a quarterly journal of literary criticism, theory, and pedagogy. weniger anzeigen

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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (1987) — Herausgeber — 16 Exemplare

Reading Homer's Odyssey (2019) 11 Exemplare

The Beat Generation: Critical Essays (2002) 6 Exemplare

Reading Homer: Film and Text (2009) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare

Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (2009) — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare

Order and Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the "Postcolonial" (Suny Series, Interruptions : Border Testimony) (1995) 3 Exemplare

Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law and Culture (1999) 3 Exemplare

Margins in the Classroom: Teaching Literature (1994) 3 Exemplare

Teaching Beat Literature 1 Exemplar

Race-ing Representation (1997) 1 Exemplar

College Literature: Special Issue 18.2: Literary Theory in the Classroom - June 1991 (2008) 1 Exemplar

Takis Papatsonis (1974) 1 Exemplar

Drinking from the Blood-Pit: Meditations on Flittering Shadows (2017) 1 Exemplar

Others Must Dance for the Lord Dionysus Now: A Poetic Memoir (1993) 1 Exemplar

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Reading Homer : film and text von Kostas Myrsiades

I am unwillingly impressed. This book has actually made me reconsider my opinion of the Petersen film Troy.

Shawn Ross's essay on Homer as a historical source is badly organized and unconvincing; Rick Newton's examination of the parallels between geras and xeineia is fascinating if a trifle over-ambitious; John B. Vlahos's examination of books 19 and 23 of the Odyssey makes me so happy, for its respectful treatment of Penelope, I can't even tell you (she is smarter than you are, accept that and rejoice in it, okay); Scott Richardson's essay on conversation in the Od. is decent but heavy-going; Joel Christensen's close reading of telos muthon is not for non-classicists; Jonathan S. Burgess's discussion of Troy's historicism is a lot more nuanced than I would have expected, given the topic; Charles C. Chiasson's contrasting of the heroic model in Troy and the Iliad is unexpectedly fascinating; and the last two essays on It's a Wonderful Life and The Gunfighter are on movies I haven't seen and therefore can't assess.… (mehr)

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