Author : Pietro Pucci
Release : 1998
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 593/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Song of the Sirens by : Pietro Pucci
Download or read book The Song of the Sirens written by Pietro Pucci. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.