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1、StylisticanalysisofTheOdyssey:AthenaInspiresthePrince1.IntroductionTheOdysseyisoneoftwomajorancientGreekepicpoemsattributedtoHomer(Wikipedia:Odyssey),whichownsanunshakablestatusinwesternhistory.Asisconsideredasthefundamentalcornerstoneofwesternliteracy,th
2、eOdyssey,thesequeltoIliad,tellsastoryontheGreekheroOdysseus’returninghome—Ithaca.AfterthefallofTroy,Odysseusstrugglesinatoughjourneyfortenyearsbeforehereacheshome.TheoriginalversionoftheOdysseywaswrittenbyancientGreekbutnotEnglish.Untilnowithasbeentransla
3、tedintomanymodernlanguagesaroundtheworld.ThefollowingdiscussionisbasedononeofEnglisheditions:TheOdyssey:(PenguinClassicsDeluxeEdition),translatedbyRobertFagles.AthenaInspiresthePrinceisthebookoneoftheOdysseytellingastorythatgoddessAthenainspiresthesonofOd
4、ysseustogetreadyforwelcominghisfather’sback.Astheopeningpart,thischapterplaysasignificantroleonunfoldingthestory.Thispapermakesananalysisof1-123linesversesexcerptedfrombookonefromaperspectiveofstylistics,inordertopresentsafurtherunderstandingontheliteralv
5、alueoftheOdyssey.2.LinguisticframeworksandlinguistictoolsAccordingtomodernlinguistics,atextcouldbedividedintodifferentlanguagelevels:mediumoflanguage,formallevel,discourseandcontext.Inthispaper,severallinguistictoolssuchasalliteration,repetitionandsomelin
6、guisticframeworksincludingLeech’ssemanticstheory,Halliday’sfunctionalgrammarandLabov’snarrativestructureareusedtomakeareasonableanalysisinnerthetext.3.Linguisticanalysisandforegrounding3.1ForegroundingsinthesoundpatternTheOdysseywasdictatedandwrittenbyHom
7、erinancientGreekcomposedinadactylhexameter(alsoknownas“heroichexameter”),whichisconsideredthemostproperpoeticformusedintheepictoportrayaheroicimage.WhentranslatedintoEnglish,theRodneyMerrill’seditioniswidelyacknowledgedforrecapturingthedactylhexameterofth
8、eoriginworkwithfidelity.Bycontrast,theRobertFagles’edition,whichthispapercenterson,ismuchfreerinrhythmsandrhymes.Thechangefromdactylhexameterintofreeversebringsoutaforegroundinginsoundpatternofthisbook.Thoughwithout
