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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Odysseus"”.
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From Fleet to Foot: An Analysis of Odysseus' Pedestrian Journeys in the Odyssey
… narratives of two pedestrian journeys made by Odysseus in the
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A New Language for Heroes: Odysseus, Ajax, and Sophistic Language in Attic Tragedy
… explore the ways in which the Homeric figures of Odysseus and Ajax are reinterpreted for the tragic stage by Sophocles and Euripides, with particular emphasis on the presence of marked sophistic modes and values of speech. My thesis begins with an overview of the sophistic movement and a …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
This thesis is anchored in the idea of a ‘female Odysseus’ in French cinema where the films analysed explore space, the female body, and female subjectivity. It investigates chronologically selected films by Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda, which form an intriguing dialogue in cinema, reflecting the …
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Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus and Roy Hobbs: Application and Analysis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory
<p>Heroes have been with us since the beginning of time with some becoming more well known than others. Each and every culture seems to have their own type of hero that embodies their ideals, values and beliefs. It is this truth that Joseph Campbell, author of the 1949 book <em>The Hero with a …
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Friend, Foe, or Other? Monsters and Identity on the Odyssean Sea
The sea upon which Odysseus wanders in Homer's Odyssey is a chaotic and unpredictable place, empty of historical non-Greek cultures, but full of sea creatures, monsters, and deities eager to ensnare and devour the long-suffering hero. However, the Mediterranean of the Archaic Age that produced the …
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Penelope, domestic power and the morality of deceit in Homer's Odyssey.
… my focus out of the physical boundaries of Odysseus’ palace and to a more abstract consideration of the concept of the oikos in Homer’s text it is my intent that this dissertation will overcome this barrier by focussing on Penelope’s actions in light of a marked distinction between her …
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Managing public perceptions : reading success in Agamemnon's diapeira
… his temporary bestowal of his power on Odysseus. In Narrative Section 2, Agamemnon presents himself to the boule of gerontes as acting with communal cohesion in mind, but omits his intention to capitalize on the laoi’s desperation and thus to force the gerontes to support his position as …
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Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface
… invention of the ancient Greek oral tradition. Odysseus's nostos, his returning journey to his homeland, Ithaca, still echoes today, as an inexhaustible source of imagination and creativity. This project postulates that in the instance of the Odyssey, Homer blends imagination with reality, …
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Adrift
… based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey (in which Odysseus' son, Telemakos, sets out to look for his lost father), the novel traces Telemaka's search for her father through an endless string of lovers. The novel opens in 2005, when Telemaka is in her late twenties, and works its way backward …
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Programmatic Elements in Selected Post -1950 Works for Solo Oboe
… this analysis of Vier gefiederte Worte des Odysseus. An annotated select bibliography of other programmatic works for solo oboe is provided in an appendix.
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Coming Home, Staying Put, and Learning to Fiddle: Heroism and Place in Charles Frazier's <em>Cold Mountain</em>.
… The first chapter explores how Frazier recreates Odysseus in Inman, his main male character, to depict the psychological trauma inflicted by war. The second chapter focuses on Ada, Inman’s pre-war sweetheart, and Ruby, a girl with whom Ada bonds, as challenges to the male pastoral tradition. …
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A Shift in Perspective: Temptress Witch to Realistic Woman
… Anglo-American translations of The Odyssey, Odysseus is painted as a courageous, clever king while the briefly-featured Circe is portrayed as a temptress witch. This dichotomy changes, however, by the time these characters are featured in early 21st-century adaptations of Homer’s work; both …
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An interpretation analysis of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel.
… concepts of Christianity and those of the hero Odysseus.
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Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile
… allusions to Adorno himself in his analysis of Odysseus as the prototypical bourgeois.</p> <p>This thesis explores a biographical approach of the man who was known for his viscero-critical voice. I propose that the cultural diversity apparent in his bourgeois upbringing in post-Weimarian …
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Mythology in the poetry of Maksimilian Volosin: The metaphor of consciousness
… chronologically by Orpheus, Laocoon, Oedipus, Odysseus, Icarus, and Zeus. These references to Greek mythology allow us to trace the path of Volosin's poetic persona: acceptance of the limitations of the human predicament, quest for self-knowledge, departure from the native land, wanderings, and …
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The Structure of the Homeric Dwelling Scene: a Presentation of Justice in Homer
… point with the Cyclopeia, making the case that Odysseus enters the cave ‘dwelling’ of a human Cyclops wherein Homer compares two different human men’s approaches to the justice of the gods and men. The effect of such a reading of the Cyclopeia transforms what has become relegated, in modern …
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Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models
… but pains on his own people. The text address Odysseus’ problematic, but uniquely successful, metamorphosis from king to hero and back to king and the unsuccessful attempt by Beowulf to make a similar transition. </p> <p>The analysis ends with an exploration of the uniquely 20th century hero: …
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Ezra Pound's City: The Total Light Process
… of willed and directed action, as a persona of Odysseus. It is now clear that the poem rests most firmly in a deeper, stiller sense of humanity, the city and its continuity, symbolized by the goddess of field and citadel wearing the sanctuary of her people as a crown.</p> <p>The purpose of this …
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Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica
… nature of the scene. Encolpius feels like an Odysseus, but in the end, just like the fake wig he is wearing at the time, this is only a pose.
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Navigating gods and monsters: the production of safe insecure spatialities in the deterrence of risk at sea
… representations of maritime risk, such as Odysseus’ lengthy journey home from Troy and Sir Francis Drakes role as a spatial disruptor through the Colonial construct of the ‘privateer’. These discussions reveal that sea space has been represented and therefore lived differently based on its …
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