The shadow of Ulysses : figures of a myth / Piero Boitani ; translated by Anita Weston.
The shadow of Ulysses : figures of a myth / Piero Boitani ; translated by Anita Weston.
The shadow of Ulysses : figures of a myth / Piero Boitani ; translated by Anita Weston.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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1994.
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N809.93351/19
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Italian
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xii, 193 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Wonder: Poetry and History -- 1. Shadows: Figuralism and Prophecy -- 2. Shipwreck: Interpretation and Alterity -- 3. The Nova Terra: Typologies, History, and Intertextuality -- 4. From Land to Land, towards the Whirlpool: Obliquity, Impurity, and Restless Readings -- 5. In Breve Carta:...
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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England
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1994.
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Piero Boitani's study is a perceptive and imaginative exploration of the myth of Ulysses in a range of western literature from Homer to Joyce.
Among the writers discussed in this book are Homer and Dante, Tasso and Tennyson, Leopardi, Poe, and Baudelaire, as well as Conrad, Levi, Joyce, and Borges. Informed by modern critical theory, Piero Boitani's elegant work displays deep learning as well as illuminating and enlivening readings of a wide range of references as it describes the incarna...
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The shadow of Ulysses : figures of a myth / Piero Boitani ; translated by Anita Weston.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0198122683 (acid-free paper) :
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809.93351
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