Alterniverse Visions by Kurt Busiek

Alterniverse Visions by Kurt Busiek

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Alterniverse Visions by Kurt Busiek

This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterised by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes, thus making the establishment of chronological priorities a difficult task. The editors have brought together scholars working on these texts from both a linguistic and a literary perspective to address the problem. Some contributions offer statistical analysis of the linguistic material or linguistic analysis of subgenres within epic, others use a neoanalytical approach to the history of epic themes or otherwise seek to track the development and interrelationship of epic contents. All the contributors focus on the implications of their study for the dating of early epic poems relative to each other. Thus the book offers an overview of the current state of discussion.
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ISBN 13 9780785101949
ISBN 10 0785101942
Title Alterniverse Visions
Author Kurt Busiek
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Marvel Comics Group
Year published 1996-08-01
Number of pages 0
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