... poison words. Odysseus is willing to bend his morals, to get things done "we are the Greeks with a job to do, and we did it17". In the opening of Homer's the Odyssey, the very first adjective Homer applies to Odysseus is "polytropos18". Literally it means "much-travelled or much-wandering19" but it can be used metaphorically as "turning many ways ... to his enemies and towards the Gods, to having great wisdom and from his suffering and an understanding of the divine that was present in the island the whole time. The island becomes a sacred place, as now Philocetetes sees Lemnos in a di...

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... but rather as stories, narratives of events, which can be analyzed structurally as elaborate sentences: "I walk, Pierre has come, are . . . minimal forms of narrative, and inversely the Odyssey or the Recherche is only, in a certain way, an amplification (in the rhetorical sense) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer" (Genette 30). "A narrative is a long sentence," writes Roland Barthes (84 ... expansive enough to include her own teachers-from Homer and Virgil to the Russians, Jewett, and James. Death Comes for the Archbishop, seems to me in some ...

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