Vol. 1 No. II (2020)

If the maritime world is the place par excellence where the hero, and man more generally, is tested through the challenges of fortune, the allure of the unknown and ordeals of the journey, the epic poetry that gives him voice not only provides a different system of sceneries, episodes, exploits and enemies than that of the land-based military epic, but also imposes a different rhetoric and a different metaphorical domaine: issues that deserve their own treatment. The second issue of "AOQU," therefore, takes a voyage not only in familiar seas of Western literature, along routes marked by some of the masterpieces of the past, but also experiments with more daring pilings in unfrequented far-off waters.