The Choice of Odysseus
| Author | : Sarah Van der Laan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2024-02-22 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780198778295 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0198778295 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (295 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Choice of Odysseus by : Sarah Van der Laan
Download or read book The Choice of Odysseus written by Sarah Van der Laan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.
