Joseph Russo

Biographic Data

ID3637710
NAMEJoseph Russo
GIVEN NAMESJoseph
FAMILY NAMERusso
SIGNATURERUSSO J
AFFILIATIONSEmeritus, Haverford College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS46
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian Rhymes of Love, Disdain, and Faith

    Joseph RussoARTICLEItalian Americana2020

    Book Review| August 01 2020 Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian Rhymes of Love, Disdain, and Faith Antonio Veneziano, Sicilian Rhymes of Love, Disdain, and Faith edited, introduced, and translated into English verse by Gaetano Cipolla. Pueti d'Arba Sicula Series, Vol. XVII. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2020. 147 pp. Joseph Russo Joseph Russo Emeritus, Haverford College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian Americana (2020) XXXVIII (2)…

  • Nonsense or Riddle? Elusive Genre in Giuseppe Pitrè’s Sicilian Folktales

    Joseph RussoARTICLEItalian Americana2020

    Research Article| August 01 2020 Nonsense or Riddle? Elusive Genre in Giuseppe Pitrè’s Sicilian Folktales Joseph Russo Joseph Russo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian Americana (2020) XXXVIII (2): 115–122. https://doi.org/10.5406/2327753X.38.2.05 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Russo; Nonsense or Riddle? Elusive Genre in Giuseppe Pitrè’s Sicil…

  • Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century by Michael M. J. Fischer

    Joseph RussoARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2020

    Reviewed by: Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century by Michael M. J. Fischer Joseph Russo Michael M. J. Fischer, Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 464 pp. A seasoned academic once told me that anthropologists hate style. In retrospect, I understand this to have been a warning …

  • Severity

    Open AccessJoseph RussoARTICLEJournal for the Anthropology of…2019References: 2

    This experimental ethnographic essay juxtaposes expository sections on the concept of severity as a "composition of life" with stories of a rural informant in Southeast Texas' Piney Woods. The essay explores the notion of a flattened, generalized rurality that becomes specific in moments of storytelling, living through hardship, and finding oneself struggling to just keep going. It uses the specificity of story and regionality to show how the ide…

  • Meropes

    Open AccessJoseph RussoCHAPTER2011

  • Parry, Milman

    Open AccessJoseph RussoCHAPTER2011

  • Formula

    Open AccessJoseph RussoCHAPTER2011

  • Eteocretans

    Open AccessJoseph RussoCHAPTER2011

  • Homeri "Ilias", Volumen Alterum, Rhapsodias XIII-XXIV Continens

    Joseph Russo, Martin L WestARTICLEThe Classical World2004

  • Homeri Ilias, Volumen Prius, Rhapsodias I-XII Continens

    Joseph Russo, Martin L WestARTICLEThe Classical World2000

  • The Formula

    Joseph RussoCHAPTERA New Companion to Homer1997

  • A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey, Vol. 3: Books XVII-XXIV

    Homer Homer, Joseph Russo et al.BOOKA Commentary on Homer's Odyssey:…1993

  • Orality and Literacy in Hellenic Greece

    Joseph Russo, Tony M LentzARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1991Cited by: 1

  • A commentary on Homer's Odyssey

    Homer Homer, A Hoekstra et al.BOOKA commentary on Homer's Odyssey1988Cited by: 17

    This is the final instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by Russo (books xvii-xx), Fernandez-Galiano (books xxi-xxii), and Heubeck (books xxiii-xxiv) is preceded by introductions dealing with the books in question. For this English version the intr…

  • Interview and Aftermath: Dream, Fantasy, and Intuition in Odyssey 19 and 20

    Joseph RussoARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1982Cited by: 17

  • Homeric Psychology and the Oral Epic Tradition

    Joseph Russo, Bennett SimonARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1968Cited by: 11

    is a convenient term to refer to the modes of representing mental states, both ordinary and unusual, in the Homeric poems. Current interest in Homeric psychology is primarily due to the impressive studies of Bruno Snell and E. R. Dodds, though other scholars have made important contributions over the years.2 These studies have for the most part concentrated on the task of establishing the characteristics peculiar to the Homeric portrayal of menta…