The AdventurerThe description for this book, The Adventurer: The Fate of Adventure in the Western World, will be forthcoming. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Myth of Odysseus | 19 |
Heroes and Adventurers | 34 |
Copyright | |
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Achilles action adven adventure story adventurer's ancien régime André Malraux archaic become Beowulf Casanova castle character Claude created criminal Cuchulainn culture danger Daniel Defoe death Defoe Defoe's demonic describes desert destiny discovered domestic dream eighteenth century energies Enkidu epic Epic of Gilgamesh episodic escape essential experience expressed fascination fate Giacomo Casanova Gilgamesh gods Gothic novel Greek Grendel Heart of Darkness hero heroic Homer human world Ibid Iliad individual island language Lawrence's learns literature lives magic Malraux man's Marlow memoirs modern monk moral world order mother mysteries myth narrative nature never Nietzsche Nietzsche's night novelistic Odysseus philosopher Poe's poem popular Portable Nietzsche reality reason resembles risk Robinson Crusoe romance Roquentin Sade secret sense Seven Pillars shaman social society sort spirit storytelling struggle subject matter T. E. Lawrence tell tion tradition ture turn values voyage walls warrior woman women writes Zarathustra