Background
Peradotto, John Joseph was born on May 11, 1933 in Ottawa, Illinois, United States. Son of John Joseph and Mary Louise (Giacometti) Peradotto.
( Beginning with a diagnosis of the current state of Amer...)
Beginning with a diagnosis of the current state of American classical philology, John Peradotto proceeds to concentrate on textual practices of naming and narrating in the Odyssey from a perspective that blends traditional philological with semiotic and narratological techniques. What emerges from this reading is a view of the poem as a tense opposition between "myth" and "folktale," recognized as vehicles for contrasting ideological opinions on the world. With terms drawn from Bakhtin's concept of "dialogism," the Odyssey's two voices are characterized as "centripetal" and "centrifugal"--the one associated with dominant political power, with the conventional, the official, and the heroic; the other, with the personal, the disempowered, and the popular, with the antics of the Autolycan trickster and outlaw. As he examines the more audible, "centrifugal" voice, Peradotto shows how the poet's sense of power over his material, represented in Odysseus' ability to narrate a fictitious world, creates a "character" of infinite varietyone whose self-chosen anonymity becomes a paradigm for a subtler ideology of the self than that embodied in the Iliadic Achilles.
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Peradotto, John Joseph was born on May 11, 1933 in Ottawa, Illinois, United States. Son of John Joseph and Mary Louise (Giacometti) Peradotto.
Bachelor of Arts, St. Saint Louis University, 1957; Master of Arts, St. Saint Louis University, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1963.
Instructor classics and English, Western Washington U., Bellingham, 1960-1961; instructor, Georgetown University, 1961-1963; assistant professor classics, Georgetown University, 1963-1966; assistant professor classics, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1966-1969; associate professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1969-1973; professor, chairman classics, University Texas, Austin, 1973-1974; professor classics, State University of New York-Buffalo, since 1974; Andrew V.V. Raymond professor classics, State University of New York-Buffalo, since 1984; Distinguished teaching professor, State University of New York-Buffalo, since 1990; department chairman, State University of New York-Buffalo, 1974-1977; dean division undergraduate education, State University of New York-Buffalo, 1978-1982. Martin lecturer Oberlin College, 1987. Director summer seminar for college teachers National Endowment for Humanities, 1976, for secondary school teachers, 1984.
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Member American Philological Association (director) 1974-1977, president 1990), Classical Association Atlantic States (Executive Committee 1976-1978).
Married Noreen Doran, August 29, 1959 (divorced 1982). Married Marlene Rosen, August 29, 1992. Children: Erin, Monica, Noreen, Nicole.