The Olive-Tree Bed and Other Quests

by Mark Owen Lee

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079849
• ISBN13: 9780802079848
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"