Warmly recommended for its exciting-and productive-new insights into the reader's experience of a storyworld: this is an important contribution to literary studies, ancient and modern.
Jonathan L. Ready is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the University of Miami and at Indiana University. He is co-editor of Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters (University of Texas Press 2018), and he co-edits the annual Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (Brill).