By Susan Cooper
ISBN-10: 0689849192
ISBN-13: 9780689849190
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by way of their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal city to recuperate a worthy golden grail stolen by means of the forces of evil -- darkish. they don't seem to be at the start conscious of the unusual powers of one other boy dropped at aid, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister importance of the Greenwitch, a picture of leaves and branches that for hundreds of years has been solid into the ocean for reliable success in fishing and harvest.
Their look for the grail units into movement a chain of irritating, occasionally risky occasions that, at their climax, bring on a present that, for a time at the very least, will retain the darkish from rising.
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9. 72) have a similar connotation. Cf. Motte, 1973, 50-56, cited by Vernant, 1982, 15, n. 10. 10. In die later epic sequel to the Odyssey entitled the Telegony, Odysseus' further adventures included journeys, wars, a second marriage to Kallidike, Queen of the Thesprotians, and death at the hands of Telegonos, his son by Kirke. 357). 11. On the specific poetic significance of "the sign of the bed," see Zeitlin, Chapter 7, this volume. 12. Cf. Foley, 1978. 13. For recent discussions of Penelope, see Murnaghan, 1986, reworked and expanded in Murnaghan, 1987, 118-47; Felson-Rubin, 1987 and 1993; Winkler, 1990; Doherty, 1990; and Katz, 1991, who is especially instructive on Penelope and kleos.
Cf. Felson-Rubin, 1987 and 1993. On Penelope as an independent "moral agent," see Foley, Chapter 6, this volume. 16. Nevertheless, several scholars have argued that Penelope unconsciously or intuitively recognizes Odysseus in Book 19. See, for example, Harsh, 1950; Amory, 1963; Russo, 1982. Cf. Winkler, 1990, 150-61, who describes Penelope as "only 99% certain" that the stranger "was really Odysseus" (160). 17. On the poem's open-endedness and "indeterminacy," especially in regard to Penelope, see Katz, 1991, esp.
Each appeals to, or plays against, audiences' conceptions of females generally as well as the expectations shaped by representations of particular females in the mythology and oral poetic tradition behind the poem. None of these descriptions or representations within the Odyssey is totally authoritative; taken together, they contribute greatly to the poem's narratological, dramatic, and moral complexity. 2 For many readers, the most memorable section of the Odyssey is Odysseus' narrative to the Phaeacians in Books 9-12 of his adventures since leaving Troy.
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