Sarah van der Laan

Gebundenes Buch

Choice of Odysseus

Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sarah Van der Laan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She received her PhD in Renaissance Studies and English from Yale University and worked as a maître-assistante suppléante in the Département de langue et littérature anglaises of the Université de Genève before moving to Bloomington. Her teaching and research focus on the European epic tradition from Homer to Milton and on Renaissance literature, music, and culture, with special interests in the ethical value of literature, Renaissance epic and romance, Homeric reception, the intersections of epic and opera, and the place of music in the literary tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198778295
• ISBN-10: 0198778295
• Artikelnr.: 68505544