A Hero Without Nostos: Ulysses' Last Voyage in Twentieth-Century Italy.

• Schironi, Francesca ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     City of Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: International journal of the classical tradition, ISSN 1073-0508, Vol. 22, Nº 3, 2015, págs. 341-379
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article reviews the reception of Ulysses' last voyage in twentieth-century Italy. Ulysses' last voyage is used by Italian authors to discuss different and often opposing views of the ideal human life as well as the intellectual and existential angsts of the twentieth century. In addition, the Italian twentieth-century Ulysses becomes part of a metapoetic discourse, as going back to the Homeric and Dantesque myths of Ulysses for an artist also means interrogating oneself on the possibility of creating something new within a long tradition. This metaliterary dimension adds to the modern Italian reception of Ulysses, making it a unique case of the intersection of many different layers of reception both in chronological and thematic terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]