LEADER 03651nam 2200697 450 001 9910456220703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02550-3 010 $a1-4426-7806-2 010 $a9786612025501 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678064 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001205 035 $a(OCoLC)244768145 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000377382 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377382 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10338886 035 $a(PQKB)10815919 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00213166 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3257993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671794 035 $a(DE-B1597)464719 035 $a(OCoLC)944177787 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678064 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671794 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257487 035 $a(OCoLC)958565365 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001205 100 $a20160923h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe olive-tree bed and other quests /$fM. Owen Lee 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$d©1997 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 225 1 $aRobson Classical Lectures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-7984-9 311 $a0-8020-4138-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tPreface -- $t1. Questing -- $t2. The Olive-Tree Bed -- $t3. The Golden Bough -- $t4. The Holy Grail -- $t5. The Eternal Feminine -- $t6. What Ithacas Mean -- $tNotes -- $tSelect Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn The Olive-Tree Bed and Other Quests, the fourth in the series of Robson Lectures published by the University of Toronto Press, Father Lee studies the quest myth as it occurs in Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Wagner's Parsifal and Goethe's Faust. Though the four works represent four different genres - oral epic, written epic, music drama, and poetic drama - each deals with the finding of an elusive goal attainable only by the hero called to find it. The questing for the olive-tree bed, the Golden Bough, the Holy Grail, and the Eternal Feminine is, at the deepest level, the hero's search to find the meaning in his life. Though Father Lee's lectures address critical problems in the four works, and draw to some extent on Jungian insights, this volume is also a personal memoir written in the belletristic style for which its author has become known. Father Lee wears his learning lightly, and his writing changes from chapter to chapter as it reflects, in turn, the clarity and naïve sense of wonder in Homer, the darkness and ambivalence in Virgil, the intuitive mysticism of Wagner, and the riotously imaginative exuberance of Goethe. Each of the four quests comes eventually to be seen as every person's search to discover himself - for the journey of the hero is the myth each of us is called to live. 410 0$aRobson classical lectures. 606 $aHeroes in literature 606 $aQuests (Expeditions) in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHeroes in literature. 615 0$aQuests (Expeditions) in literature. 676 $a809.93351 700 $aLee$b M. Owen$f1930-$0887061 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456220703321 996 $aThe olive-tree bed and other quests$92448719 997 $aUNINA