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The Return of Ulysses Reprint Edition

by Edith Hall (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-1780762357
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris; Reprint edition (August 15, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1780762356
  • ISBN-13: 978-1780762357
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 starsScholarship on Holiday
By D. L. Rubin on December 30, 2008
Format: Hardcover
This essay offers incisive, enthusiastic, and sometimes mischievous glances at the subjects and ideology of works that patently derive from The Odyssey, or apparently develop aspects of its matter in non-Homeric contexts. To score certain points, Hall ' an eminent classics scholar ' batches her cameo critiques under convenient, if at times trendy, rubrics: "Telling Tales", "Singing Songs", and "Turning Phrases" but also "Colonial Conflict", "Women's Work", and "Class Consciousness". The Return of Ulysses is clearly not a treatise: its argument is too scattered, under-theorized, and idiosyncratic in its treatment of evidence to qualify as mainstream scholarship. Moreover, despite the subtitle and routine observance of chronology within chapters, Hall's discourse is not historical in any disciplinary sense, nor is its connection with "culture" (other than the post-modern) clear and continuous. Originating in a BBC talk as well as BA and MA courses Hall recently taught at the University of Durham, The Return of Ulysses addresses adventurous, literate non-specialists, interested in a Cook's tour and willing to countenance an implausible major claim: that The Odyssey is nothing less than the Foundational Text of Western Civilization.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Return of Ulysses
By Phillip B. Allen on November 2, 2008
Format: Hardcover
You can reinvent yourself by reading Homer's "The Odyssey", and then read "The Return of Ulysses" to learn how much 'The Odyssey" has permeated our culture. "Oh Brother Where Art Thou", and then "2001;, A Space Odyssey", would provide good non-print intertextuality. Maybe listen to Eric Clapton with Cream, singing 'Tales of Brave Ulysses'. The list goes on! It's hard to imagine how our culture would be if 'The Odyssey" weren't written!.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBreezy Journey through World Literature
By Mick McAllister on August 26, 2014
Format: Hardcover
Hall's book got dinged a bit for not being "scholarly" enough. I think that rather misses the point, which was to suggest to the lay reader just how foundational The Odyssey is to world literature. Personally I found its fluid, non-technical presentation fun to read and endlessly provocative. I expect I'll be going back to Fitzgerald's translation, when I find a copy, to revisit the original. I'm also tempted to look into Derek Walcott's various permutations and deeply intrigued by an obscure 16th C Japanese retelling of the Odyssey as the adventures of one Yurikawa. Hall's sheer voraciousness is breathtaking, even if it was supplemented by the hard work of her students.
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