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Odysseys Home
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Author : George Elliott Clarke
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2017-06-22
Odysseys Home written by George Elliott Clarke and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.
Sailing Home
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Author : Norman Fischer
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Sailing Home written by Norman Fischer and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Religion categories.
Homer’s Odyssey holds a timeless allure. It is an ancient story for every generation: the struggle of a man on a long and difficult voyage longing to return to love and family. Odysseus’s strivings to overcome both divine and earthly obstacles and to control his own impulsive nature hold valuable lessons for us as we confront the challenges of daily life. Sailing Home breathes fresh air into a classic we thought we knew, revealing its profound guidance for the modern seeker. Dividing the book into three parts—“Setting Forth,” “Disaster,” and “Return”—Fischer charts the course of Odysseus’s familiar wanderings. Readers come to see this ancient hero as a flawed human being who shares their own struggles and temptations, such as yielding to desire or fear or greed, and making peace with family. Featuring thoughtful meditations, illuminating anecdotes from Fischer’s and his students’ lives, and stories from many wisdom traditions including Buddhist, Judaic, and Christian, Sailing Home shows the way to greater purpose in our own lives. The book’s literary dimension expands its appeal beyond the Buddhist market to a wider spiritual audience and to anyone interested in the teachings of myth and story.
Travel And Home In Homer S Odyssey And Contemporary Literature
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Author : Carol Dougherty
language : en
Publisher: Classical Presences
Release Date : 2019-06-24
Travel And Home In Homer S Odyssey And Contemporary Literature written by Carol Dougherty and has been published by Classical Presences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home. While some novels share with the Odyssey a celebration of the creative process of improvisation to rethink the relationship between home and travel, others draw upon nostalgia - our complicated longing for home - to unsettle the inevitability of return. Rather than offering an explicit retelling of Homer's poem, each of these novels prompts us to revisit the relationship between travel and home that Odysseus and Penelope embody to ask new questions of that well-read text. Does travel reinforce or destabilize our notion of home? Are mobility and domesticity irrevocably gendered, or can we imagine a world in which Penelope travels and Odysseus stays home? Just as Odysseus continually reinvents his own identity with each new encounter, both abroad and at home, so too we, as readers, participate in an improvisatory interpretive experiment of our own. This volume sets out a new model for reading ancient and contemporary texts together - one that challenges the conventional chronological assumptions inherent in many works of classical reception. No longer a stable text to which we as readers return time and again to find it the same, the Odyssey, together with the novels with which it engages, changes and adapts with each new literary encounter.
The Odyssey
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Author : Homer Homer
language : en
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-01
The Odyssey written by Homer Homer and has been published by Xist Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Homer's Odyssey is a ancient Greek epic poem and the sequel to The Iliad. Attributed to Homer, the edition has been translated as prose by Samuel Butler. The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero, Odysseus, and his journey home after the fall of Troy. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
The Journey Home
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Author : Brian Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-14
The Journey Home written by Brian Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-14 with categories.
Black Odysseys
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Author : Justine McConnell
language : en
Publisher: Classical Presences
Release Date : 2013-06-20
Black Odysseys written by Justine McConnell and has been published by Classical Presences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with History categories.
This book explores works from Africa and the African diaspora which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. As a founding text of the Western canon, and as a homecoming trope and quest for identity, the Odyssey has inspired writers who are simultaneously striving against and appropriating the very forms which had been used to oppress them.
No Man S Lands
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Author : Scott Huler
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-03-11
No Man S Lands written by Scott Huler and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn’t enough to simply read the words on the page—he needed to live Odysseus’s odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer’s story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus’s two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus’s every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops’s Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey—the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family—continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus’s final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man’s Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys—one ancient, one contemporary—and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people.
The Odyssey
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Author : Homer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-25
The Odyssey written by Homer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.
The Odyssey
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Author : Home Homer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Odyssey written by Home Homer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Odyssey by Home Homer is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
The Odyssey
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Author : Homer Homer
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-10-14
The Odyssey written by Homer Homer and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-14 with categories.
War is never a good thing, but with legendary heroes like Odysseus or Ulysses (called in Latin) and Achilles, I bet you don ́t want to miss this! It is an exciting and challenging journey through this timeless classic as we relive the Trojan War. Dear reader, brace yourselves for a rough ride ahead, which will be thrilling and eventful! This story is told in nonchalant and alluring poetry. Odyssey is a classic tale expressing Odysseus's daunting voyage as he returns home to his loving wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus. The characters are a connate and the events unfold readily. As we tag along with Odysseus as he journeys home together with his large crew after the fall of Troy. This journey is made challenging and near impossible by legendary creatures and several Greek gods. The gods are portrayed as selfish and only concern themselves with their interests. As we journey, events are unfolding on the other side as Telemachus grapples with keeping off his mother ́s suitors who are proposing marriage. Ulysses and his crew face many challenges during this incredible ten years voyage to Ithaca, their home after the Trojan War ends.. The author tells fascinating stories of the: Odysseus ́s eventful voyage home. The ill-mannered suitors. The conniving gods and goddesses of the ocean. Odysseus the legendary hero. Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and Odyssey, which was later translated to English by Samuel Butler. It is speculated that he could have been from Smyrna and Chios, which was among many Greek settlements in Asia Minor. Some scholars argued that Homer could be a traditional name attached to a collective composed work.