... This, irritates him because "he could not write like a writer of histories and could not write without passion- Besides, leading us into the characters mind, de Bernieres, takes the reader a step further and presents us with the descriptive historical background of Cephallonia, his intention is to create a ... of the Greeks and Cephallonia. Through his writing, he illustrates the landscape, the sea and we are led into the stories of the Odyssey. In the chapter following, the view, mood and time shifts and the reader is presented to an important figure of Modern History: Mussolini ... Ber...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the Archbishop (1927) is about two nineteenth-century French priests, Father Vaillant and Father Lour, who come to America to establish a mission in the southwestern desert which changes them. Main Characters - -Father Jean Marie Latour, Vicar Apostalic of New Mexico -Father Joseph Vaillant, his friend, a missionary priest -Kit Carson, frontier scout -Jacinto, an Indian guide Plot - This historical ... Catholicism in Santa Fe. Their experiences in these stunning yet uncultivated surroundings cause dramatic changes in both men as they experience the westward movement of the agricultural f...

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• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... reproducibility, "transferring a scene of conspiracy into a scene of representation- . Reproducibility in print suggests a popular consumption of the text and therefore a necessity to produce further editions, thus The Iliad and The Odyssey live on centuries and centuries later. The title suggests that demand and supply alone can bring a text canonic status. Such a notion would be simplistic because there are plenty of political ... of the necessary qualities of a canonical work, in the wry observations of the human condition through cynical overtones about the progress of modern societ...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate