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ISBN-13 :  9780192663603

Author : Justin Arft 

Arete and the Odyssey’s Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale “poetics of interrogation” used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus’ kleos, or epic renown. Arete’s interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the “stranger’s interrogation” is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen’s question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus’ status in epic and memory. Arete’s role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey’s central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos’ famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus’ fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus’ public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete’s carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

Arete and the Odyssey’s Poetics of Interrogation 1st Table of contents:

Part I. The Question
1. The Stranger’s Interrogation
Introduction and Overview
A Homeric Question?
Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
A Wider Context: Not a Nice Question
Ritual and Transformation: The Gāthās
The Orphic Lamellae: Overview and Issues
Not a Homeric Question
Dialogues with the Dead
From Late Reception to Early Witnesses: A Turn toward the Odyssey
Homeric Hymns
Conclusion
2. The Poetics of Interrogation
Introduction and Overview
Recognition Reconsidered
An Expanded Typology for Recognition
“That” Man: Identification
Telemachus and the How-to Guide to Interrogation
Getting Closer: Menelaus and Helen
Not a Nice Question, Part II
Telemachus’ Paradeigmata
Odysseus Hupotropos: Allies in a Vengeful Return?
Penelope, Laertes, and the Man of (No) Pain
Conclusion: The Interrogations That Remain
Part II. The Queen
3. Phaeacian Multivalence
Introduction and Overview
The Odyssey’s Phaeacians
Arete’s Multivalence
Phaeacian Distance: An Other/Underworld
Shared Eschatology
Itinerary and Katabasis Parallels
Setting the Stage: Endogamy, Thick Description, and Incremental Narrative
Not What It Seems: Nausikaa and the Power of Private Performance
Preparing to Meet the Queen
A Way Out
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Xenia versus Supplication
The Queen’s Question
Moving Ahead
4. Go past the King
Introduction and Overview
Alkinoos the “Stout-Minded”?
Reversal: The Competitive Feast
Demodocus’ First Song
Even a Blind Man
Swing of the Pendulum_ Biē on Display
A Hero in Their Midst?
Tell Me Your Name
Conclusion: The Problem with the Name
5. Question and Answer
Introduction and Overview
Self-Identification
Navigation
Polyphemus and Odysseus’ Great Fame
Circe
A Turn to the Queen
Generic Modulation
Encoding Nostos
The Turning Point: The Intervention in the Intermezzo
Arete, Nostos-Giver and Gift-Giver
Arete’s Power and Authority
6. Wondrous Deeds
Introduction and Overview
Dangerous Territory
The Shape of Things: A Final Counter-Request
Which Wondrous Deeds? Competing Views of Heroism
Recoding Theskela Erga
Return to the Queen
Conclusion: Selective Memory and Survival in Song
Departure
Destruction and Survival
Selective Memory
The Domestication of Kleos
Appendix: Catalogue and Commentary on the Stranger’s Interrogation
I. Reconstructive Possibilities from *kw-
II. Commonly Cited Homeric “Variations” of Od. 1.170 (as Full-Line Expansions of “Who/Whence?”)
III. South Slavic Comparanda
IV. Mahābhārata
V. Gāthās: Yasna 43
VI. Middle Persian Reception of Gāthās
VII. Epigrams
VIII. Latter-Day Receptions of the Stranger’s Interrogation
IX. Formal Analysis of HHDem 113
X. Contemporary Comparanda

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