The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Tradi...
Stanford, W. B. / Boer, Charles![The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/409/40923977/CHSBZCOP0340923977.jpg)
Oedipus still dominates the psychoanalytic imagination, though Ulysses is a more central to Western tradition, from Homer to Joyce and Kazantzakis. W. B. Stanford's delightfully readable and erudite, survey of the Ulysses figure revolutionizes conventional accounts of this hero. For here is a Ulysses with closer ties to wife, mother, nymphs, and goddesses than his fellow warriors, a faithful husband who dallies with seductive enchantresses, a ...