TA Summer
Institute Essays

GENERAL
Berger - "On the Obsolescence of the Concept of
Honor"
Griffin - "Death and the God-Like Hero"
Kott - "The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of
Green Tragedy"
Link - "On Epic"
Otto - "Athena" The
Homeric Gods
Otto - "Introduction"
The Homeric Gods
Padel - "Blood in the Mind"
Schein - "Chapter 2: The Gods"
The Mortal Hero
Scully - "Oikos and Polis in the Homeric Poems"
Thornton - "The Phases in the Movement of the
Cosmos"
Vernant - "Mortals and Immortals: The Body of the
Divine"
Whitman - "Fire and Other Elements"
AENEID
Adler - "Aeneas and the Heroes"
Bono - "The Dido Episode"
Mandelbaum - "Introduction"
The Aeneid
Parry - "The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid"
Quinn - "The Tempo of Virgilian Epic"
DIVINE COMEDY
Fergusson - "The Metaphor of the Journey"
Freccero - "Manfred's Wounds and the Poetics of the
Purgatorio"
Meeker - "The Comedy of Dante's Comedy"
Sayers - "Introduction"
The Divine Comedy
Singleton - "The Three Lights"
Journey to Beatrice
Williams - "Introduction"
The Figure of Beatrice
ILIAD
Bespaloff - "On the Iliad"
Mueller - "Knowledge and Delusion in the Iliad"
Owen - "The Farewell of Hector and Andromache"
Redfield - "The Hero"
Schein
- "Achilles: One"
Willcock - "Some Aspects of the Gods in the Iliad"
MOBY-DICK
Auden - "The Christian Tragic Hero: Contrasting
Captain Ahab's Doom and its
Classic Greek Prototype"
Bezanson - "Moby-Dick:
Work of Art"
Buell - "Moby-Dick as Sacred Text"
Garrison - "Melville's Doubloon and the Shield of
Achilles"
Lawrence, D.H. - "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick"
Robinson - "Call me Jonah"
American Apocalypses
Slochower - "Moby-Dick: The Myth of
Democratic Expectancy"
ODYSSEY
Amory - "The Reunion of Odysseus and Penelope"
Dimock - "The Name of Odysseus"
Dodds - "On Misunderstanding Oedipus Rex"
Segal - "Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey"
Slatkin - "Composition by Theme and the Metis of the
Odyssey"
Whitman - "Apocalypse: Oedipus at Colonus" |