Word: homerian
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...Although Vickers believes he's the first scholar to use plagiarism software on authorship studies, he's not the first to use software of any kind to analyze the linguistic patterns of literature. Homerian scholar Martin Mueller of Northwestern University, who has lauded Vickers' work, has used the "search and display" function in his computerized database to analyze Homer's works. With the tool, he's been able to highlight distinctive phrasal repetitions in the author's prose - which may come as no surprise to those who found the Iliad and the Odyssey a bit repetitive. Here again, like with...
...peek at the next book on the syllabus, which I thought to be far more satisfying: “The Scarlet Pimpernel.”Luckily, my bad experience with “The Odyssey” hasn’t prejudiced me against all the novels with a Homerian essence. Before I was halfway through Bernhard Schlink’s “Homecoming,” I had decided that it was time to return to the original hero’s journey.But what makes “Homecoming” such a compelling read is its contestation...
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