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Ulysses Theme [Paperback]

William Bedell Stanford (Author)

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Publication Date: February 2000

This book offers substance to contemporary reflections on manhood. Comradeship, heroism, virtue, wandering, trickery, psychopathy, father-son issues, relations between men and a variety of feminie forms, and the intervention of the Gods. Stanford surveys the range of responses—from Euripides to Kazantzakis—to Ulysses’ ambiguous nature, transforming Homeric studies by focusing on literary and psychological analysis.

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Paperback: 340 pages
Publisher: Spring Publications (February 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0882143557
ISBN-13: 978-0882143552
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,261,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'WE have been too early acquainted with the poetical heroes to expect any pleasure from their revival; to show them as they already have been shown, is to disgust by repetition; to give them new qualities of new adventures, is to offend by violating received notions'. Read the first page

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civilized gentleness, historical assimilation, favourite hero, traditional hero, pro bono publico, additional bibliography

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Homer's Odysseus, Western Europe, James Joyce, Joyce's Ulysses, Tennyson's Ulysses, Don Juan, Leopold Bloom, The Stage Villain, Wily Lad, Dante's Ulysses, Dictys of Crete, Epic Cycle, Homeric Odysseus, Land of Ghosts, Odysseus's Autolycan, Odyssey Eleven, Shakespeare's Ulysses, Cattle of the Sun, Homer's Ulysses, Navigator Hero, Odysseus's Homeric, Odysseus's Iliadic, Plato's Republic, Sophocles's Ajax, Thurgh Sorcerie

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Troilus and Cressida (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare on 28 pages
Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on 10 pages
The Wooden Horse: The Fall of Troy (Tales from the Odyssey) by I. M. Richardson on 9 pages
In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson on 4 pages
Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer on 4 pages

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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay on 4 pages
The Iliad: A Commentary (Volume VI: books 21-24) by Nicholas Richardson on 4 pages
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII by Alfred Heubeck on page 71, page 253, and page 292
Aeneidos: Liber Secundus (Virgil) (Bk.2) by Virgil in Front Matter, page 20, and page 51

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