Contents
Issue 35.4 (Fall 2008)
HOMER; Analysis & Influence
Abstracts ........................................................................................iv-vii
Kostas Myrsiades ..........................................................................xi-xix
Introduction: Homer; Analysis & Influence
Kostas Myrsiades ..........................................................................xi-xix
Introduction: Homer; Analysis & Influence
Essays
Rick M. Newton ....................................................................................1
Assembly and Hospitality in the Cyclôpeia
B. Pauline Nugent ..............................................................................45
The Sounds of Sirens; Odyssey 12.184-91
Nathaniel Wallace ..............................................................................55
Cultural Process in the Iliad 18. 478-608, 19. 373-80 (“Shield of Achilles”) and Exodus 25:1-40:38 (“Ark of the Covenant”)
Cultural Process in the Iliad 18. 478-608, 19. 373-80 (“Shield of Achilles”) and Exodus 25:1-40:38 (“Ark of the Covenant”)
William Duffy ......................................................................................75
Aias and the Gods
Joseph Roisman ....................................................................................................................................97
Greek Perspectives on the Justness and Merits of the Trojan War
Michael Nerdahl ..................................................................................................................................110
Pouring the Wrong Wax in the Literary Mold: Plutarch’s Marius and Homer’s Odyssey
Hanna M. Roisman ..............................................................................................................................127
Helen and the Power of Erotic Love: From Homeric Contemplation to Hollywood Fantasy
Jessica Wolfe ......................................................................................................................................151
Chapman’s Ironic Homer
Review Essays
Peter Baker .........................................................................................................................................188
The Fate of Modern Poetries
[Reviews of Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry, by Anne Day Dewey; Poetic Obligation: Ethics in American Poetry After 1945, by Matthew G. Jenkins; George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism, by Peter Nicholls.]
Randall Knoper ...................................................................................................................................198
[Reviews of Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human, by Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World, by George Levine; The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely, by Elizabeth Grosz; Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power, by Elizabeth Grosz; Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, by Elizabeth Wilson; Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics, by Ira Livingston.]
Book Reviews
Paul Maltby .........................................................................................................................................215
[Review of The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War, by Graham Robb.]
Anuradha Dingwaney ..........................................................................................................................219
[Review of Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective, ed. Graham MacPhee and Prem Poddar.]
Ryan Perry ..........................................................................................................................................222
[Review of Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England, by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton.]
Morris Young .......................................................................................................................................225
[Review of Economic Citzens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility, by Christine So.]
Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................229
