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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3621779, member: 85693"]Wonderful overview of this fascinating figure from mythology, Jochen - and as always, superbly illustrated. It is difficult to add to it, but one of my favorite books of literary criticism is <i>The Wound and the Bow</i> by Edmund Wilson. The Encyclopedia Britannica: </p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Wound and the Bow</b>, book of literary criticism by Edmund Wilson, published in 1941. Employing psychological and historical analysis, Wilson examines the childhood psychological traumas experienced by such writers as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, and Edith Wharton and the effects of those experiences on their writing. The title of the book comes from a myth retold by Wilson in which Philoctetes, an injured Greek warrior with a foul-smelling wound who has been banished because of his odour, is sought out by his fellow Greeks because they need his prowess with a magic bow and arrows"</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wound-and-the-Bow" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wound-and-the-Bow" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wound-and-the-Bow</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My beat-up copy dated 1965 - it is still in print, which is pretty amazing for a book of lit-crit from 1941:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970961[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3621779, member: 85693"]Wonderful overview of this fascinating figure from mythology, Jochen - and as always, superbly illustrated. It is difficult to add to it, but one of my favorite books of literary criticism is [I]The Wound and the Bow[/I] by Edmund Wilson. The Encyclopedia Britannica: [B]The Wound and the Bow[/B], book of literary criticism by Edmund Wilson, published in 1941. Employing psychological and historical analysis, Wilson examines the childhood psychological traumas experienced by such writers as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, and Edith Wharton and the effects of those experiences on their writing. The title of the book comes from a myth retold by Wilson in which Philoctetes, an injured Greek warrior with a foul-smelling wound who has been banished because of his odour, is sought out by his fellow Greeks because they need his prowess with a magic bow and arrows" [URL]https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Wound-and-the-Bow[/URL] My beat-up copy dated 1965 - it is still in print, which is pretty amazing for a book of lit-crit from 1941: [ATTACH=full]970961[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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