The return of Ulysses : a cultural history of Homer's Odyssey / Edith Hall.
Hall, Edith, 1959-
2008
PA4167.A2 H35 2008 (Mapit)
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Title The return of Ulysses : a cultural history of Homer's Odyssey / Edith Hall.
Author Hall, Edith, 1959-
ISBN 9780801888694
0801888697
Publication Details Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description vii, 296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number PA4167.A2 H35 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 883/.01
Summary The travels and travails of Homer's resourceful hero have thrilled countless generations of listeners and readers, who for almost three millennia have breathlessly followed his voyage home from Troy to Ithaca. Edith Hall explains our enduring fascination with this epic in terms of its extraordinary openness to adaptation and reinterpretation. Not only has the narrative been read to reflect a wide range of intellectual and aesthetic agendas, but it has been perhaps uniquely fertile in generating new artistic forms. Creative responses to the Odyssey have included the tragedies of classical Athens and the burlesque of Aristophanes as well as more recent genres such as travelogue, science fiction, the novel, opera, film, children's books, and detective stories. Hall traces fifteen key themes in the Odyssey to illuminate the innumerable ways it has affected the cultural imagination.--From publisher description.
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pt. 1. Generic mutations.
Embarkation
Turning phrases
Shape-shifting
Telling tales
Singing songs
pt. 2. World and society.
Facing frontiers
Colonial conflict
Rites of man
Women's work
Class consciousness
pt. 3. Mind and psyche.
Brain power
Exile from Ithaca
Blood bath
Sex and sexuality
Dialogue with death.

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