![]() ![]() ![]() Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. ![]() However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. Hes gay, almost 50, and his ex-lover is about to get married. Copyright of Classical Receptions Journal is the property of Oxford University Press / USA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. Arthur Less is a working writer whos yet to pen a best-seller.Using the device of the mise-en-abyme, and yet disrupting the conventions of novelistic story-telling, Greer aligns the recursive structures of his text in order to intertwine theories of narratology with sexual identity. Although the novel makes explicit allusions to specific events and characters of the Homeric epic, its most significant intertextuality is not inscribed in Less's events and characters, but rather in their telling, as if by a male Penelope to whom Odysseus recounted his tales. It’s a comedy, a picaresque, a love story, and adventure, of coming-to-terms with age, and for me it’s also a very meaningful reflection on different generations of gay men. Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Abstract: Andrew Sean Greer's comedic novel Less is a self-reflexive version of the Odyssey, featuring a gay love story in which the narrator and his subject merge to produce a postmodern homophrosyne that recapitulates the like-mindedness of Odysseus and Penelope. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |