{"product_id":"the-sirens-chant-giuseppe-schembri-bonaci-9781805840763","title":"The Sirens' Chant: Bloom \u0026 Chichikov: When the footnote becomes the text, the text the footnote","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book concentrates on two major modern Homeric 'wanderings', stemming from two radically different geo-timeframes which were never previously juxtaposed in such a radical dialectical manner: Chichikov's wanderings around Rus in Gogol's 'Dead Souls', and Bloom's one-day Dublin path in Joyce's 'Ulysses'. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenging this oxymoronic interaction, the author, exploiting an interdisciplinary approach interposes these two main meanderings with two other odysseys as a sub-narrative: Nikolai's meanderings in Bely's 'Petersburg' and the Joad family's along the 66 Highway in Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis shows how authors in different times and geo hubs, having different ideologies, appertaining to different classes and societies are dealing with the same problems, having parallel exciting 'answers' and harbouring a strange form of humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1805840762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805840763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997574836479,"sku":"9781805840763","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sirens-chant-giuseppe-schembri-bonaci-9781805840763","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}