Kostas Myrsiades
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kostas Myrsiades |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kostas |
| FAMILY NAME | Myrsiades |
| SIGNATURE | MYRSIADES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chester County Historical Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer's Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic's themes that informs the n…
Homer's “Odyssey” and the Near East
Homer's Odyssey is a unique combination of a variety of myth genres and traditional narrative types that have their origins in the Near East. “Every individual motif that makes up the Odyssey is traditional; each of the genres of myth it uses is also a traditional type extant elsewhere” (13)—so argues Bruce Louden in his recent study, Homer's “Odyssey” and the Near East. Louden, to be exact, identifies eighteen distinct genres of myth in the Odys…
Race-ing Representation
This collection takes on the problem of representing race in the context of a master language and culture. These essays discuss this problem in terms of the ongoing struggle to redefine the self as speaker, that is, to re-construe our understanding of history, sexuality, and speech itself in a continuing battle for self-definition. As a totality, these essays explode the notion of race as a natural boundary between groups and pose a variety of po…
Producers and Distributors of Films with Ethnic Content
Producers and Distributors of Films with Ethnic Content: 16 MM Film Sources Get access Kostas Myrsiades Kostas Myrsiades West Chester State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 1976, Pages 19–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/3.3.19 Published: 01 September 1976
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Producers and Distributors of Films with Ethnic Content
Producers and Distributors of Films with Ethnic Content: 16 MM Film Sources Get access Kostas Myrsiades Kostas Myrsiades West Chester State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 1976, Pages 19–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/3.3.19 Published: 01 September 1976
Race-ing Representation
This collection takes on the problem of representing race in the context of a master language and culture. These essays discuss this problem in terms of the ongoing struggle to redefine the self as speaker, that is, to re-construe our understanding of history, sexuality, and speech itself in a continuing battle for self-definition. As a totality, these essays explode the notion of race as a natural boundary between groups and pose a variety of po…
Homer's “Odyssey” and the Near East
Homer's Odyssey is a unique combination of a variety of myth genres and traditional narrative types that have their origins in the Near East. “Every individual motif that makes up the Odyssey is traditional; each of the genres of myth it uses is also a traditional type extant elsewhere” (13)—so argues Bruce Louden in his recent study, Homer's “Odyssey” and the Near East. Louden, to be exact, identifies eighteen distinct genres of myth in the Odys…
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer's Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic's themes that informs the n…
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (1 work)