Joel Christensen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5627894 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joel Christensen |
| NOMBRES | Joel |
| APELLIDO | Christensen |
| FIRMA | CHRISTENSEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2353-7391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Epic
As the son of Zeus, accomplisher of great tasks, and civilizing agent, Heracles appears an archetypal hero, central to any number of myths and whose deeds dominate artistic representation. Yet his appearances in extant early Greek hexameter poetry are fleeting and carefully circumscribed. In this chapter we survey the references to an epic Heracles in order to establish common elements (his “fabula”); consider what picture emerges from the (fragm…
Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Minds
This paper applies theoretical frameworks from disability studies to the Homeric epics to explore how agency is communicated through the representation of heroic bodies. After exploring the exceptional ugliness of Thersites in respect to the poetics of beauty in the Iliad, I argue that the Odyssey adapts notions of a functional body to privilege mental ability over physical strength. Such an adaptation complements rather than negates Iliadic valu…
The Many-Minded Man
This book explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences — both ancient and modern — a therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate. By reading the Odyssey as an exploration of the constitutive elements of human identity, the function of narrative in defining the …
Eris and Epos
This article examines the development of the theme of eris in Hesiod and Homer. Starting from the relationship between the destructive strife in the Theogony (225) and the two versions invoked in the Works and Days (11–12), I argue that considering the two forms of strife as echoing zero and positive sum games helps us to identify the cultural and compositional force of eris as cooperative competition. After establishing eris as a compositional t…
Even Heracles Had to Die
Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to use the conceptual framework of interformularity and intertraditionality to explore the ways in which the Iliad represents Heracles and makes his tradition speak to the concerns of this narrative. We begin by sketching out the antiquity of Heracles in myth and assessing its resonance in the fragmentary and extant poetry from the archaic period. After…
Ares AIΔHΛOΣ
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (review)
Reviewed by: The Artistry of the Homeric Simile Joel P. Christensen William C. Scott. The Artistry of the Homeric Simile. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009. Pp. viii, 267. $45.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-58465-797-2. William C. Scott’s book, a companion to his earlier work (The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile, Leiden 1974), is a welcome examination of Homeric similes. His general argument for a sophisticated relationship between [En…
First-Person Futures in Homer
This article examines the range of meaning of Homeric first-person futures and proposes a genealogy for the "performative" future in later authors. After presenting modern evaluations of the modality of the future and its overlap with the subjunctive, I offer a Homeric typology and focus on hard-to-categorize instances. Several future uses depend on modal values to convey performative senses: some prefatory futures structure speeches and communic…
Homeric Voices
Reviewed by: Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender Joel Christensen Elizabeth Minchin. Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 310. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928012-4. In this book, Elizabeth Minchin continues to apply lessons from cognitive psychology and sociolinguistics to Homeric poetry; see, for example, Homer and the Resources of Memory: Some Applications of Cognitive Theory to the Iliad an…
Homer
Reviewed by: Homer: The Resonance of Epic Joel Christensen Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold. Homer: The Resonance of Epic. Classical Literature and Society. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 176. $31.00 (pb.). ISBN 0-7156-3282-5. This book, the second in Duckworth's new Classical Literature and Society series, presents a method of reading the Homeric epics and an introduction to this method aimed at specialists and neophytes alike. The titular "R…
Homer
Even Heracles Had to Die
Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to use the conceptual framework of interformularity and intertraditionality to explore the ways in which the Iliad represents Heracles and makes his tradition speak to the concerns of this narrative. We begin by sketching out the antiquity of Heracles in myth and assessing its resonance in the fragmentary and extant poetry from the archaic period. After…
First-Person Futures in Homer
This article examines the range of meaning of Homeric first-person futures and proposes a genealogy for the "performative" future in later authors. After presenting modern evaluations of the modality of the future and its overlap with the subjunctive, I offer a Homeric typology and focus on hard-to-categorize instances. Several future uses depend on modal values to convey performative senses: some prefatory futures structure speeches and communic…
Eris and Epos
This article examines the development of the theme of eris in Hesiod and Homer. Starting from the relationship between the destructive strife in the Theogony (225) and the two versions invoked in the Works and Days (11–12), I argue that considering the two forms of strife as echoing zero and positive sum games helps us to identify the cultural and compositional force of eris as cooperative competition. After establishing eris as a compositional t…
Homer
Reviewed by: Homer: The Resonance of Epic Joel Christensen Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold. Homer: The Resonance of Epic. Classical Literature and Society. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 176. $31.00 (pb.). ISBN 0-7156-3282-5. This book, the second in Duckworth's new Classical Literature and Society series, presents a method of reading the Homeric epics and an introduction to this method aimed at specialists and neophytes alike. The titular "R…
Homer
Homeric Voices
Reviewed by: Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender Joel Christensen Elizabeth Minchin. Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 310. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928012-4. In this book, Elizabeth Minchin continues to apply lessons from cognitive psychology and sociolinguistics to Homeric poetry; see, for example, Homer and the Resources of Memory: Some Applications of Cognitive Theory to the Iliad an…
First-Person Futures in Homer
This article examines the range of meaning of Homeric first-person futures and proposes a genealogy for the "performative" future in later authors. After presenting modern evaluations of the modality of the future and its overlap with the subjunctive, I offer a Homeric typology and focus on hard-to-categorize instances. Several future uses depend on modal values to convey performative senses: some prefatory futures structure speeches and communic…
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (review)
Reviewed by: The Artistry of the Homeric Simile Joel P. Christensen William C. Scott. The Artistry of the Homeric Simile. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009. Pp. viii, 267. $45.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-58465-797-2. William C. Scott’s book, a companion to his earlier work (The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile, Leiden 1974), is a welcome examination of Homeric similes. His general argument for a sophisticated relationship between [En…
Ares AIΔHΛOΣ
Even Heracles Had to Die
Our purpose in this chapter is not to try to reconstruct the lost epics of Heracles but rather to use the conceptual framework of interformularity and intertraditionality to explore the ways in which the Iliad represents Heracles and makes his tradition speak to the concerns of this narrative. We begin by sketching out the antiquity of Heracles in myth and assessing its resonance in the fragmentary and extant poetry from the archaic period. After…
Eris and Epos
This article examines the development of the theme of eris in Hesiod and Homer. Starting from the relationship between the destructive strife in the Theogony (225) and the two versions invoked in the Works and Days (11–12), I argue that considering the two forms of strife as echoing zero and positive sum games helps us to identify the cultural and compositional force of eris as cooperative competition. After establishing eris as a compositional t…
The Many-Minded Man
This book explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences — both ancient and modern — a therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate. By reading the Odyssey as an exploration of the constitutive elements of human identity, the function of narrative in defining the …
Epic
As the son of Zeus, accomplisher of great tasks, and civilizing agent, Heracles appears an archetypal hero, central to any number of myths and whose deeds dominate artistic representation. Yet his appearances in extant early Greek hexameter poetry are fleeting and carefully circumscribed. In this chapter we survey the references to an epic Heracles in order to establish common elements (his “fabula”); consider what picture emerges from the (fragm…
Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Minds
This paper applies theoretical frameworks from disability studies to the Homeric epics to explore how agency is communicated through the representation of heroic bodies. After exploring the exceptional ugliness of Thersites in respect to the poetics of beauty in the Iliad, I argue that the Odyssey adapts notions of a functional body to privilege mental ability over physical strength. Such an adaptation complements rather than negates Iliadic valu…
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