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What does the word "quest" conjure up? A journey in the hope of fulfillment, an exploration of identities, questions, the nature of research itself, or the darker side of quest in the form of conquest, colonisation and displacement? These are some of the threads taken up and developed in this collection of essays by established and emerging scholars. Germaine Greer, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Serge Doubrovsky, A. S. Byatt, Novalis, Melville, Valéry, Beckett, Stanislao Nievo, Victor Segalen, Sibilla Aleramo, Dacia Maraini, Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Cintio Vitier, Domingo del Monte, Ramón de Palma, Pablo Armando Fernández, Hubert Aquin, Anne Hébert , Homer, Proust, Balzac and Robbe-Grillet provide the literary voices that invite these scholars to embark on their own quests into subjects as diverse as the relationships between texts, authors and readers, the initiatic journey, spirituality and enlightenment, female autobiography and identity, oppression, imperialism and postcolonial discourses, not to mention the history of the quest itself. The result is a rich tapestry of thought-provoking insights into the inexhaustible connections between literature and quest.

Quests (Expeditions) in literature.

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La thématique du crime, de l'enquête ou du suspect, en termes de vraies et de fausses pistes, suffit-elle encore pour faire avancer la recherche sur les frontières entre le roman policier et les autres formes du récit ? Cette question est au centre des réflexions de ce livre. Cet ouvrage explore les zones opaques de l'écriture romanesque et ses voiles identitaires et imaginaires. Il aide à mieux décrire la production de sens dans le roman par le biais des modèles issus de la linguistique, de la pragmatique, de la sémiologie, de la poétique et de la narratologie, qui ouvrent plusieurs perspectives sur l'aspect mystérieux du récit romanesque dont l'œil narratif accompagne le silence des personnages et engage le lecteur dans une vaste entreprise d'élucidation. Il exploite les ressorts épistémologiques et esthétiques d'un type de narration fondée sur le manque et l'inadaptation.

Quests (Expeditions) in literature. --- French literature --- History and criticism.

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In The Olive-Tree Bed and Other Quests, the fourth in the series of Robson Lectures published by the University of Toronto Press, Father Lee studies the quest myth as it occurs in Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Wagner's Parsifal and Goethe's Faust. Though the four works represent four different genres - oral epic, written epic, music drama, and poetic drama - each deals with the finding of an elusive goal attainable only by the hero called to find it. The questing for the olive-tree bed, the Golden Bough, the Holy Grail, and the Eternal Feminine is, at the deepest level, the hero's search to find the meaning in his life. Though Father Lee's lectures address critical problems in the four works, and draw to some extent on Jungian insights, this volume is also a personal memoir written in the belletristic style for which its author has become known. Father Lee wears his learning lightly, and his writing changes from chapter to chapter as it reflects, in turn, the clarity and naïve sense of wonder in Homer, the darkness and ambivalence in Virgil, the intuitive mysticism of Wagner, and the riotously imaginative exuberance of Goethe. Each of the four quests comes eventually to be seen as every person's search to discover himself - for the journey of the hero is the myth each of us is called to live.

Quests in literature. --- Quests in literature --- Heroes in literature. --- Quests (Expeditions) in literature.

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Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Italian poetry --- Quests (Expeditions) in literature --- Work in literature --- History and criticism

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In the great tradition of publishing famous children's books in Latin, professional classicist and lifelong Tolkien fan Mark Walker provides a deft translation of the entire book. His attention to detail, including the transformation of Tolkien's songs and verses into classical Latin metres, will fascinate and entertain readers of all ability, even those with only a minimal acquaintance with the language.

Middle Earth (Imaginary place) --- Quests (Expeditions) --- Hobbits (Fictitious characters) --- Good and evil --- Baggins, Bilbo