Homer: The Odyssey by Jasper Griffin
Jasper Griffin discusses the background of the poem, The Odyssey, in oral poetry. He shows that the epic has a coherent structure built upon the interplay of themes such as travel, hospitality, loyalty, family affection, and a keen and discerning interest in women.-
Camus: The Stranger
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Virgil: The Aeneid
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Milton: Paradise Lost
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Celine: Journey to the End of the Night
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Ezra Pound: The Cantos
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Beckett: Waiting for Godot
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Dante: The Divine Comedy
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Aeschylus: The Oresteia
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James Joyce: Ulysses
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Wordsworth: The Prelude
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Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Stendhal: The Red and the Black
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Homer: The Iliad
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Joyce: 'Ulysses'
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Murasaki Shikibu
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Pasternak:Doctor Zhivago
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Sterne: Tristram Shandy
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Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
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Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
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Proust: Swann's Way
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Shakespeare: Hamlet
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Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Eliot: Middlemarch
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Rousseau: Confessions
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Goethe: Faust Part One
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Balzac: Old Goriot
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Mann: Buddenbrooks
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Dickens: Bleak House
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Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan
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Boccaccio: Decameron
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Racine: Phedre
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Emile Zola: L'Assommoir
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James Boswell: The Life of Johnson
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Scott: Waverley
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Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin
"Intelligent and readable, it offers a concise overview of the issues most frequently raised when students approach Homer for the first time" Lillian E. Doherty, Classical World
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521310437 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521310431 |
| Title | Homer: The Odyssey |
| Author | Jasper Griffin |
| Series | Landmarks Of World Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1987-11-26 |
| Number of pages | 114 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |