At this Odyssey moment, fans and critics of Christopher Nolan’s film may want to deepen their understanding of the characters, plot lines, and values of the eighth-century BCE epic that inspired it.
In this expanded and updated second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the like-minded partnership Homer depicts in the flirtatious and teasing courtship dance of Penelope and Odysseus, two equally wily, “polytropic” characters who find their way back to one another after twenty years of separation. Their reunion also illuminates the bond Homer forms with his audiences across time and space—a bond newly visible in our own Odyssey moment.
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