The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero

Stanford, W. B.

ISBN 10: 088214961X / ISBN 13: 9780882149615

Editore: Spring Publications, Thompson, Connecticut, 2022

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2022. Fourth edition, revised. xxviii, 423pp. The book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions, and all contents are tight and clean. "Oedipus still dominates the psychoanalytic imagination, although Ulysses is a more central to Western tradition, from Homer to Joyce and Kazantzakis. W.B. Stanford's delightfully readable and erudite, survey of the Ulysses figure revolutionizes conventional accounts of this hero. For here is a Ulysses with closer ties to wife, mother, nymphs, and goddesses than his fellow warriors, a faithful husband who dallies with seductive enchantresses, a man of valor who wins by deceit the Trojan Horse. In his brilliantly challenging foreword, "The Classicist and the Psychopath," Charles Boer brings the hero's wanderings up to the twenty-first century by examining the strange fascination of academics with Ulysses and exposing the peculiar prejudices that are hidden in Classical scholarship.".

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• Titolo: The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero
• Editore: Spring Publications, Thompson, Connecticut
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 088214961X
• ISBN 13: 9780882149615
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Edizione: Fourth Edition - Revised and Corrected
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Ancient History/Classical

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Oedipus still dominates the psychoanalytic imagination, though Ulysses is a more central to Western tradition, from Homer to Joyce and Kazantzakis. W. B. Stanford’s delightfully readable and erudite, survey of the Ulysses figure revolutionizes conventional accounts of this hero. For here is a Ulysses with closer ties to wife, mother, nymphs, and goddesses than his fellow warriors, a faithful husband who dallies with seductive enchantresses, a man of valor who wins by deceit—the Trojan Horse. In his brilliantly challenging foreword, “The Classicist and the Psychopath,” Charles Boer brings the hero’s wanderings up to the twenty-first century by examining the strange fascination of academics with Ulysses and exposing the peculiar prejudices that are hidden in Classical scholarship.