Kostas Myrsiades Knihy

The commentary offers a detailed exploration of the major themes within Homer's "Iliad," designed for students encountering the epic for the first time. Each book is accompanied by endnotes that clarify unfinished myths, define terms, and provide essential background context. Additionally, the volume features a general bibliography along with specific bibliographies for each book's commentary, enhancing the reader's understanding and engagement with the text.

It has been fifty years since the Beats first came upon the literary scene and although the academy’s hostility toward the Beats has not completely abated, it has certainly diminished. Today mainstream publishers are adding many Beat titles to their lists, and students of Beat literature can draw upon a wealth of critical resources that have been published in the last twenty years. The fourteen critical essays gathered in this collection verify that Jack Kerouac is still the undisputed king of the Beats followed by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. At the same time, however, the Beat movement is shown to be broader and more far reaching than previously thought, encompassing names such as Oscar Zeta Acosta and William Kotzwinkle and even suggesting influences on contemporary German literature in authors like Wolf Wondratschek, Rolf Dieter Brinkman, and Jörg Fauser.

The narrative explores the profound consequences of war, focusing on themes of redemption, transformation, and the quest for home. It provides insightful commentary on each book of the epic, making it accessible for non-specialists while offering fresh perspectives for seasoned readers. This analysis enhances the understanding of Homer's timeless tale, enriching the experience of both casual and dedicated audiences.

Approaches to Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century. Both epics are required reading in most college/university general and world literature courses, as is evident from their inclusion in part or in whole in many standard world literature anthologies. These ten new approaches to the first literary works of Western culture are intended as reading aids for both instructors and students in any college/university classroom in which either of these two Homeric epics are taught.

This collection offers fresh and challenging essays by scholars in law, English and comparative literature, social and political thought, and communication studies. It explores unique angles of vision that allow us to read legal opinions as well as criminal cases, abortion clinic violence, trial testimony (victim impact statements), legal authority, and legal fictions of personal and national identity (passports). The literature it analyzes ranges from Shakespeare's Richard II and The Merchant of Venice to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , E. M. Forster's A Passage to India , Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient , Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm , and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway . Providing a breadth of material, this collection breaks through disciplinary boundaries as new voices challenge old paradigms, pushing marginalized questions into the center of the literature and law enterprise.