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A comparative study of two classic literary works, from a
specialist in Joyce and Homer Time and Identity in "Ulysses" and
the "Odyssey" offers a unique in-depth comparative study of two
classic literary works, examining essential themes such as change,
the self, and humans' dependence on and isolation from others.
Stephanie Nelson shows that in these texts, both Joyce and Homer
address identity by looking at the paradox of time-that people are
constantly changing yet remain the same across the years. In
Nelson's analysis, both Ulysses and the Odyssey explore dichotomies
such as the permanence of names and shifting of stories,
independence and connection, and linear and cyclical narrative.
Nelson discusses Homer's contrast of ordinary to mythic time
alongside Joyce's contrast of "clocktime" to experienced time. She
analyzes the characters Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, alienated from
their previous selves; Telemachus and Stephen Dedalus, trapped by
the past; and Penelope and Molly Bloom, able to recast time through
weaving, storytelling, and memory. These concepts are also explored
through Joyce's radically different narrative styles and Homer's
timeless world of the gods. Nelson's thorough knowledge of ancient
Greece, Joyce, narratology, oral tradition, and translation results
in a volume that speaks across literary specializations. This book
makes the case that Ulysses and the Odyssey should be read together
and that each work highlights and clarifies aspects of the other.
As Joyce's characters are portrayed as both flux and fixity,
readers will see Homer's hero fight his way out of myth and back
into the constant changes of human existence.
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new
translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David
Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming
contains deep indications about its view of the human place within
nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both
Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming
in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming
itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious
implications.
Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live
by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must
always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice,
competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place
alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular
lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which
human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately
modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to
reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship
in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him
both our life within nature, and also our battle against her.
Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single
meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and
suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both
nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the
Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the
importance of the connection between the two poems, and because
they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both,
farming in itsdeepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new
translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David
Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming
contains deep indications about its view of the human place within
nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both
Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming
in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming
itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious
implications.
Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live
by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must
always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice,
competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place
alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular
lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which
human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately
modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to
reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship
in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him
both our life within nature, and also our battle against her.
Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single
meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and
suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both
nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the
Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the
importance of the connection between the two poems, and because
they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both,
farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
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Turning Home (Paperback)
Kelsey Keeton; Stephanie Nelson
bundle available
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R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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When Brooke Kingsley finally captures the interest of her four-year
crush-Dylan Crawford-her world turns upside down. Feeling alive for
the first time, Brooke decides to spend her last three days of
summer with Dylan and discovers there's more to him than the rumors
being whispered all over town. The problem is, Brooke's father
doesn't want his daughter anywhere near the blue-collar bad boy. As
Brooke leaves for college, she'll realize that some boys aren't
easy to forget. Dylan Crawford has hated the Roseville Snobs his
whole life, but one particular Snob has captured his eye-Brooke
Kingsley. He knows he should stay away from her, but willpower has
never been his strong suit. Soon Brooke is all he can think about.
When she leaves for school, Dylan tries to move on with other
girls, but the memory of Brooke taunts him. There's an undeniable
pull to the very girl he's been warned to stay away from. When
tragedy strikes the Kingsley household, secrets are uncovered.
Brooke and Dylan must decide if what they feel for each other is
strong enough to conquer their families' dark past.
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