Sinopsis:En el mundo mágico de los mitos, habitaban unas criaturas terribles y peligrosas que acababan con cualquiera que osara enfrentarse a ellas. Medusa era un monstruo capaz de petrificar con la mirada, el feroz Minotauro tenía medio cuerpo de toro y medio de hombre, y la Esfinge devoraba a todos los viajeros que no eran capaces de resolver sus enigmas. Por suerte, hubo tres grandes guerreros que se atrevieron a desafiar a los monstruos. Fueron Teseo, Perseo y Edipo, los héroes más valientes de la Antigua Grecia. ¿Quieres saber si consiguieron vencerlos?

This text provides an excellent introduction and overview of Narratology, a rapidly growing field in the humanities. Literary narratologists have provided many key concepts and analytical tools which are widely used in the interdisciplinary analysis of such narrative features as plot, point of view, speech presentation, ideological perspective and interpretation. The introduction explains the central concepts of narratology, their historical development, and draws together contemporary trends from many different disciplines into common focus. It offers a compendium of the development of narratology from classical poetics to the present. The essays are all prefaced by individual forewords helping the reader to place each individual selection in context. Recent developments are assessed across disciplines, highlighting the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, film and media studies.

In many respects, this book is considered to be the best guide ever written on Homeric religion. The analysis by W. F. Otto, while being very careful in terms of interpretation, denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit - sometimes brutal and, for our mentality, immoral - of Greek polytheism. A thrilling and amazing journey to Olympus. This is a new edition of the Pantheon Books (New York) 1952 publication.