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The Poetics of Supplication

The Poetics of Supplication PDF Author: Kevin Crotty
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801429989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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In this penetrating and compelling reinterpretation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Kevin Crotty explores the connection between the "poetic" nature of supplication on the one hand, and, on the other, the importance of supplication in the structure and poetics of the two epics. The supplicant's attempt to rouse pity by calling to mind a vivid sense of grief, he says, is important for an understanding of the poems, which invite their audience to contemplate scenes of past grieving. A poetics of supplication, Crotty asserts, leads irresistibly to a poetics of the Homeric epic.