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To the White Sea Study Guide

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by James Dickey
About 8 pages (2,280 words)
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Literary Precedents

To the White Sea follows a long tradition of quest literature, beginning with Greek classics like the Iliad and Odyssey (c.1050-850 B.C.) and continuing to the present day in works as dissimilar as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) or Margaret Atwood's Surfacing (1972). The quest motif is common and its basis is simple: The hero searches for something and must overcome obstacles to attain his or her goal.

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To the White Sea from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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