Description: Acknowledgments Introduction: Texts and the Rendering of Imaginative Reality TODD BREYFOGLE Prelude In a Drizzly Light BRENDAN KENNELLY Part One Atheism and the Religiosity of Euripides MARTIN OSTWALD Poetry and Philosophy in Aristophanes' Clouds JAMES REDFIELD Calypso's Choice: Immortality and Heroic Striving in the Odyssey and Ulysses STEPHANIE NELSON The Homecomings of Odysseus and Nala WENDY DONIGER A Bird, a Mouse, a Frog, and Some Fish: A New Reading of Leviticus II MARY DOUGLAS Confabulating Cephalus: Self-Narration in Ovid's Metamorphoses (7.672-865) W.R. JOHNSON Memory and Imagination in Augustine's Confessions TODD BREYFOGLE Metamorphosis and Conversion: Apuleius's Metamorphoses SETH BENARDETE Against Entertainment: Plato and the Poets Revisited NORMA THOMPSON Interlude "The Photographer": An Essay by Soseki TRANSLATED BY EDWIN McCLELLAN Part Two "I Know Thee Not, Old Man": The Renunciation of Falstaff AMIRTHANAYAGAM P. DAVID Transforming Conventions: The Troupe of Decorum and Thomas Sheridan's Captain O'Blunder SANDRA F. SIEGEL Synge: Reality and the Imagination of Place NICHOLAS GRENE Mallarm and English FRANOISE MELTZER T.S. Eliot as Religious Thinker: Four Quartets DAVID TRACY Rousseau on Providence VICTOR GOUREVITCH Dostoyevsky's Trojan Horse: A Raw Youth JOSEPH N. FRANK Henry James and Modern Moral Life ROBERT B. PIPPIN Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson: Mutually Antipathetic Minds CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN Postlude Problems in American Literature SAUL BELLOW Select Bibliography: Works by David Grene Contributors Index

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