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The Fountain, Edie Shillhue Sep 2000

The Fountain, Edie Shillhue

New England Journal of Public Policy

In “The Fountain,” we revive a tradition dating back to the earliest days of the journal. Edie Shillue spent a year living in Northern Ireland, wandering the streets of Derry and Belfast, the byways of the villages and the country towns, enjoying the “crack,” tossing back more than the odd pint of Guinness — and taking it all in, filling notebook after notebook with her keen observations and acute insights — definitely a different view of the conflict in Northern Ireland, but fastidious to a fault. We hope that the tradition of publishing original works of literature once revived will …


Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott Jan 2000

Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics Faculty Publication Series

In the sparkling first chapter of Louis de Bernieres's Corelli's Mandolin, the world of Homer's Odysseus is explicitly invoked. This is hardly surprising in a historical novel which will detail the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephallonia, near neighbor of Odysseus's Ithaca, during World War II. What is less immediately apparent is that the novel contains a further pattern of inexplicit allusion to the Odyssey, along with a pervasive theme of nostos. Emphasis on "homecoming" helps create the novel's ardent encomium to the Greek homeland that inspires such fierce love of place in its people …


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 08 - 2000-2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2000

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 08 - 2000-2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 07 - 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2000

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 07 - 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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