最近机精中的伊利亚特和奥德赛(Iliad and the Odyssey)2000.08的题

alovez520 · 发表于 2005-3-19 04:55:00

we're going to start our discussion of poetry in Western Europe with the

Iliad and the Odyssey.these two great poems stand out as great examples of

the earliest Euopean poems.they are believeed to have been written some

time between 800BC and 700BC,partly because the poems refer to the social

conditions of that time,conditions that have been

validated by the findings

of archeologists.but just who was the poet who laid down these cornerstones

of western literature?well,tradition ascribles them to a man named

Homer,but we know virtually nothing about this Homer.In fact,some say that

such a poet never existed at all,that neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey was

written by a single poet,but rather each poem is composed of the writings

of several people.this,anyway,is the view of a school of literary critics

in the 18th century known as the Analysts. the Analysts pointed to internal

evidence such as variations in the literary devices used in the poem to

argue that each work waaas in fact a collection of sereral poems by several

Greek authors.Opposing the ananlysts were a second group of scholars called

the Unitarian. they insisted that the Iliad and the Odyssey could have been

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the wrok of single poetic genius.To support their argument,they stress

among other things the consistency of the character portrayed in the

poetry.this wouldn't've been possilbe,they said,if they were written by

many different poets.now how we look at the Homeric question today has been

greatly influenced by someone named Milman Parry,an American scholar who

first presented his ideas about Homer in the 1930s. so let's take a look at

Parry's research and how it affects what modern day scholars think about

Homer.

47 what aspect of the Iliad and the Odyssey does the professor mainly

discuss?

48 according to the professor,what is one of the claims made by the

analysts?

49 According to the Unitarians,what is one type of evidence that a single

poet could have written both the Iliad and the Odyssey?

50 What will the professor probably talk about next?

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beautywawa · 发表于 2005-3-19 10:35:00

Thanks for sharing!!!!

enjoylife517 · 发表于 2005-3-19 14:22:00

感谢分享！！

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