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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation - The Queen and Her Question (Hardcover)
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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation - The Queen and Her Question (Hardcover)
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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the
enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale
"poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate
Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus
has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and
synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European,
Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's
interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and
negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is
part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the
queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation
of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as
interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance
with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also
establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her
husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and
narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book
reinterprets the Odyssey's central episode and challenges several
assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos' famed hospitality, even
demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to
competing inquiries into Odysseus' fundamental status in tradition.
The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus' public
reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete's
carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which
the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The
queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that
shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the
Odyssey.
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