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Narrative patterns in the "Odyssey": Repetition and the creation of meaning.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrative patterns in the "Odyssey": Repetition and the creation of meaning./
Author:	Brelinski, Timothy Alan.
Description:	168 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jenny Strauss Clay.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-02A.
Subject:	Language, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3348746
ISBN:	9781109044997

Narrative patterns in the "Odyssey": Repetition and the creation of meaning.
Brelinski, Timothy Alan.

Narrative patterns in the "Odyssey": Repetition and the creation of meaning. - 168 p.

Adviser: Jenny Strauss Clay.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2008.

My goal in this dissertation has been to investigate the use of narrative repetition in the Odyssey, and to show how the poet employs this device to suggest possible meanings to his audience. The poet, I argue, signals to the audience through the device of repetition that X and Y are alike, but through variations in those repetitions he poses questions and possible answers.

ISBN: 9781109044997Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018100
Language, Ancient.

Narrative patterns in the "Odyssey": Repetition and the creation of meaning.
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520 $a My goal in this dissertation has been to investigate the use of narrative repetition in the Odyssey, and to show how the poet employs this device to suggest possible meanings to his audience. The poet, I argue, signals to the audience through the device of repetition that X and Y are alike, but through variations in those repetitions he poses questions and possible answers.
520 $a Chapter One examines the position and function of the Telemachy in the Odyssey. Since father and son both travel by sea and face many similar trials, the traditional approach assumes the poet is showing how Telemachus is becoming like his father. The son does resemble his father, but the many qualitative differences between both the father and son should not be overlooked. From these differences I argue that the Telemachy occupies such a prominent position and has such an extensive narrative scope because the poet wished to represent, through the youthful and naive character of Telemachus, the end of the age of heroes.
520 $a In Chapter Two I maintain that the Odyssey poet has Odysseus reprise the role of the Cyclops on Ithaca to emphasize Odysseus' successful combination of bie and metis. The Cyclopean motif is, I argue, also linked with the character of Achilles, who in the Odyssey is known simply for his glorious death and failure to take Troy by storm. Odysseus is revealed as the man who unites that apparent metis/bie polarity that is nowhere more vividly described than in the Cyclopeia. Hence, the intertwining of the Cyclopean and Achillean themes. I propose that our poet is making the claim that his hero deserves the title of "Best of the Achaeans."
520 $a Chapter Three investigates the role of three groups of young men in the poem (crew of Odysseus, young men of Phaeacia, and suitors), all of whom share several significant similarities and differences in their interactions with Odysseus. These three groupings of young men, I argue, afford comment on the nature of government and those governed. The Trojan war, the many years away from Ithaca, and the long return trip home, all dramatically highlight the very real problems that arise when men return home from a prolonged conflict.
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