The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero.
- Author/Editor
- Stanfod, W. B.
- Title
- The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero.
- Published
- Stanford, W. B. The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero. 2d ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968, pp. 182-83, 188-89, 229, 245, 268n1, 277n12, 290-92.
- Review
- Gower’s presentation of Ulysses in CA, Bk, VI (as a polymath magician) is evidence of Augustinian antipathy to intellectual curiosity, here compared to Dante’s presentation in “The Inferno.” Yet CA (in Bks. 5 and 6) “shows wider literary scope” than Gower’s “medieval predecessors” and he generally favors Ulysses, except for his “skill in the Black Art.” [RFY1981; rev. MA]
- Date
- 1968
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations