Western Values, or the Peoples Homer
Unforgiven" as a Reading of the "Iliad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5136908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Whitlock Blundell, Kirk Ormand (0000-0001-9425-1334) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1773186 |
| OpenAlex | W2024737683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
We explore Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven as a reading of the Iliad. Significant parallels link the two works in terms of genre, plot structure, and ideology, especially the ideology of manhood. The Western is, in fact, the modern American epic, and as such performs an equivalent cultural role to that of the Iliad in Classical Greece: It defines the qualities necessary for those heroes who will build civilization
Ancient history · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2009 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |