Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Beck, Deborah

Titel

Para-Narratives in the Odyssey: Stories in the Frame by Maureen Alden (review)

Ist Teil von

• The Classical World, 2019, Vol.112 (2), p.100-101

Ort / Verlag

New York: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The book makes many stimulating points about how various inset stories shape the narrative of the Odyssey for both the internal and external audiences, and it discusses a truly impressive quantity of both primary and secondary sources in support of these claims. Both the introduction and the organization of the book cast it more as a presentation of a body of data than as an interpretation or synthesis of that data, and readers who take the book on those terms will learn a great deal from it. The headers and sub-heads organize the introduction as a taxonomy, by different kinds of para-narratives (analogy, paradigm) and para-narrators (poet, characters). [...]the introduction does not explain why Alden chose the particular chapter topics and sequence of ideas that she did, and the book has no conclusion.