TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,William C.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Artistry of the Homeric Simile
SN  - 9781611682298
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hanover
PB  - Dartmouth College Press
KW  - Homer
KW  - Simile
KW  - fast
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Oral-formulaic analysis
KW  - Greek language
KW  - Figures of speech
KW  - Grec (Langue)
KW  - Figures de rhetorique
KW  - Analyse des formules orales
KW  - Tradition orale
KW  - Grece
KW  - Rhetorique ancienne
KW  - Comparaison (Rhetorique)
KW  - Greece
KW  - Literary style
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Preface ·; CHAPTER ONE; Similes, the Shield of Achilles, and Other Digressions ·; The Usefulness of Book Divisions ·; CHAPTER TWO; The Simileme: The Background of the Homeric Simile ·; The Oral Nature of Homeric Verse ·; The Simileme ·; Homer and His Audience ·; Simile and Simileme ·; CHAPTER THREE; Homer's Use of Similes to Delineate Character and Plot ·; Iliad, Book 2: Ironic Characterization ·; The Similes of Book 2 ·; The Role of Similes in Book 2 ·; Iliad, Books 21 and 22: Similes to Show a Thematic Contrast ·; Iliad, Book 11: Similes to Mark a Shifting Scene ·; Conclusion ·; CHAPTER FOURSimiles to Delineate a Narrative Theme ·; Iliad, Book 12: Direct Focus on a Single Theme ·; Iliad, Book 5: The Use of Parallel Similemes to Create a Unified Theme ·; Odyssey, Book 22: Similes to Interpret Typical Actions ·; Odyssey, Book 5: Thematic Similes ·; Conclusion ·; CHAPTER FIVE; Problem Books ·; Iliad, Book 13: The Ordering of Conscious Chaos ·; Iliad, Book 17: Similes as Guides through a Series of Type Scenes ·; Iliad, Book 16: Similes for Complexity ·; Conclusion ·; CHAPTER SIX; The Creative Poet and the Co-creating Audience ·; The Simile within the Narrative ·; The Poet's Choices in Forming the Individual Simile ·The Creative Moment: Poet and Audience ·; Charts of Similemes: The Basic Motifs ·; Notes ·; Bibliography ·; Index ·; Open Access
N2  - An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/26913/
ER  -