Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Anne Amory [Parry]. "The Reunion of Odysseus and Penelope." In Essays on the Odyssey: Selected Modern Criticism. Ed. Charles H. Taylor, Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 100-21, 130-36.

An exercise in literary criticism concerned with explaining Penelope's motivation in setting the contest of the bow and with interpreting the theme of revenge in general. Assumes a poet fully in control of his verse medium and able to exploit formulaic diction for artistic purposes.
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