Windy Words in Penelope's Joking Dream: Odyssey 4.787-841.
The author examines the interpretation of an apparition's response to Penelope's second question in a dream in "Windy Words in Penelope's Joking Dream: Odyssey 4.787-841." He claims that the response is an example of a multilayered metapoetic wordplay, or a pun, which in ancient Greek times was used...
| Publicado en: | Helios Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25 |
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Texas Tech University Press
Spring2014
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| Sumario: | The author examines the interpretation of an apparition's response to Penelope's second question in a dream in "Windy Words in Penelope's Joking Dream: Odyssey 4.787-841." He claims that the response is an example of a multilayered metapoetic wordplay, or a pun, which in ancient Greek times was used as a tool to prove a punster's verbal superiority over his opponents. He also proves this claim by adapting the mechanics of the response to Attardo's descriptive rhetorical model for jokes. |
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