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Jeffrey Perl presents in this book a comprehensive reassessment of modernism and an effort to enrich our understanding of the direction literary culture has taken since the Renaissance. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from t



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Permissions, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Prologue, pg. 1*I. Nostos: An Introduction, pg. 17*II. The Process of Return, pg. 34*III. Classicism, an Historical Explanation, pg. 58*IV. Tragedy, pg. 111*V. Novel and Epic: Reading Backwards from Ulysses, pg. 144*VI. Novel and Epic: The Ithaca of History, pg. 177*VII. Myth, pg. 221*VIII. The Politics of Return: An Admonitory Postlogue, pg. 256*Notes, pg. 283*Index, pg. 315

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691612362, 978-0691612362
      ISBN10: 0691612366

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Jeffrey Perl presents in this book a comprehensive reassessment of modernism and an effort to enrich our understanding of the direction literary culture has taken since the Renaissance. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from t



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Permissions, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Prologue, pg. 1*I. Nostos: An Introduction, pg. 17*II. The Process of Return, pg. 34*III. Classicism, an Historical Explanation, pg. 58*IV. Tragedy, pg. 111*V. Novel and Epic: Reading Backwards from Ulysses, pg. 144*VI. Novel and Epic: The Ithaca of History, pg. 177*VII. Myth, pg. 221*VIII. The Politics of Return: An Admonitory Postlogue, pg. 256*Notes, pg. 283*Index, pg. 315

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