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Odysseus/Ulysses

Presents a representative selection of criticism devoted to the character of Odysseus, from Homer and the Romans to Shakespeare and Joyce, with a chronological survey of excerpts and critical essays.
Print Book, English, ©1991
Chelsea House Publishers, New York, ©1991
xvi, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791009246, 9780791009796, 0791009246, 0791009793
22597479
Critical extracts
The Odyssey and the western world / George de F. Lord
The name of Odysseus / G.E. Dimock Jr
Homer and Hamlet / Hugh Kenner
Kazantzakis : Odysseus and the "Cage of freedom" / George Scouffas
Shakespeare's Ulysses and the problem of value / W.R. Elton
The fugitive from the ancestral hearth : Tennyson's "Ulysses" / R.F. Storch
Seeds for the planting of bloom / Michael Beausang
Dante's Ulysses : from epic to novel / John Freccero
Odysseus in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Martha Nussbaum
Joyce and Homer / Richard Ellmann
The platonic and christian Ulysses / Jean Pépin
The philosophy of the Odyssey / R.B. Rutherford
Odysseus and the suitors / Sheila Murnaghan