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Thoughts on Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’
I watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for the second time last night, this time accompanied by my wife, who provided a non-classicist’s perspective on the film. Yes, I wrote a doctoral dissertation on Homer’s Odyssey, so this is one of the very few occasions in my life when those four years of labour seem to have approached what one might term relevance. Shudder. So, here are some ramblings ab
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| The King Must Die (1958) is structured as a typical bildungsroman, focusing on the physical, moral, and psychological growth of the Greek hero Theseus, and detailing his journey from a young lad in the small town of Troezen (on the east coast of the ...more | |
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| Of all Tolkien's unfinished manuscripts, The Children of Hurin is the one I really wish he had completed (if only one had a DeLorean...). I recently taught this work at Signum University (which specialises in fantasy and Tolkien), and so this seems a ...more | |
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| I assume the somewhat low aggregated rating (of around 3.8) for The Sun Also Rises pertains to the rather sparse or Spartan plot -- nothing much happens in Hemingway's first great novel. This is typically modernist, stories where not much actually ha ...more | |
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| The Hobbit is a quest, not to slay a dragon or to find hidden treasure, although these are important plot elements, but to reclaim a home, in the case of the dwarves, and to discover what it means to have a home, in the case of Bilbo. The story start ...more | |
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| I started writing a plot-based review for what is certainly my favourite fantasy book of all but very soon realised the complexity and futility of this task. The backstory to The Fellowship of the Ring would take a whole chapter to write -- in fact, ...more | |
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| Although 'Migraine' was Sack's first book publication (so far as I know), 'Awakenings' was the first typically 'Sacksian' book, where he combines his medical, neurological knowledge with a more phenomenological approach to individual case histories, ...more | |
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| This was the first 'Yalom' I read, and I was not disappointed. The book, like the Spinoza Problem, is divided into two different narrative strands such that the chapters alternate between a biographic study of Schopenhauer's life (though not to the s ...more | |
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