* Every episode of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) has an assigned theme, technique and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's Odyssey.

The mythic theme was an ancient one, for Homer's listeners were expected to know the allusion, when Penelope reveals to the still-disguised Odysseus her anguish of a night:

They were among the company of heroes that hunted the Calydonian Boar, another mythic theme that was already well-known to Homer's listeners.

Jazz is a recurring theme, with references abounding in their songs, and there are numerous other film, television and literary references and allusions, such as " Home at Last " ( from Aja ), which was inspired by Homer's Odyssey.

), the show or film's theme song ( e. g. the final scene of " Homer's Triple Bypass ", from The Simpsons ; when Sam Carter hums the theme from Stargate SG-1 during the episode " Chimera "; the second Collector from Demon Knight ; when Mr. Incredible whistles theme music from The Incredibles ; when all the characters in the film Magnolia begin to sing the background music-" Wise Up " by Aimee Mann ; in Almost Famous, when one character begins to sing the background music-" Tiny Dancer " by Elton John-and all of the other characters around him immediately pick it up and sing along as well ; the moments when Sam Lowry of Brazil hums / listens to / sings the film's self-titled theme song ; when Daryl Van Horne whistles theme music from The Witches of Eastwick ; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Rubeus Hagrid is briefly heard playing the main theme on a recorder ); when Quinton ' Rampage ' Jackson ( as B. A.

Kleos is a common theme in Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the main example in the latter being that of Odysseus and his son Telemachus, who is concerned that his father may have died a pathetic and pitiable death at sea rather than a reputable and gracious one in battle.

Xenia is an important theme in Homer's The Odyssey.

One month later, Ron Howard pitches Homer's screenplay from earlier to Brian Grazer of 20th Century Fox, and over a still of Howard rejoicing over securing the deal, a snippet of the theme song of Happy Days is played.

" He added: " I can't figure why, if Fox was going to put together a set of this theme, they couldn't have included some of the more classic episodes about Marge and Homer's romance.

There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are the religious, supernatural, tragic, love ballads, historic, legendary and humorous.

A major theme in Amadeus is Mozart's repeated attempts to win over the aristocratic " public " with increasingly brilliant compositions, which are always frustrated either by Salieri or by the aristocracy's own inability to appreciate Mozart's genius.

His nicotine addiction, love of smoking, and occasional attempts to quit became a recurring theme in his act throughout his later years.

A tendency to conceive ambitious projects, only to quickly abandon them, became a feature of Bizet's Rome years ; in addition to Carmen Saeculare he considered and discarded at least five opera projects, two attempts at a symphony, and a symphonic ode on the theme of Ulysses and Circe.

One near-universal theme is repetition, as evidenced in Western folklore with the " rule of three ": three brothers set out, three attempts are made, three riddles are asked.

A film on the theme of brotherhood about a series of escape attempts by French POWs during World War I, it was enormously successful but was also banned in Germany, and later in Italy after having won the " Best Artistic Ensemble " award at the Venice Film Festival.

In liner notes to Vladimir Ashkenazy's 2006 Decca recording, Michael Steinberg attempts to pinpoint what Beethoven might have found appealing in the theme, writing:

Control is the main theme of the novel, and Burroughs attempts to use language to break down the walls of culture, the biggest control machine.

Another regular theme is Igor's attempts to turn Duckula into a proper vampire.

There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are religious, supernatural, tragic, love, historic, legends and humour.

The second series consisted of topics beginning with " B " and also saw the first attempts to pay attention to a particular theme throughout one episode, e. g. " Birds " ( the overriding theme did not necessarily begin with " B ", although the questions always contained an element that did ).

As music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, Botstein emerged as a significant proponent of " thematic programming ," which attempts to assemble concert programs having a common theme grounded in literature, music history, or art.

Merian C. Cooper sent Wallace an internal memo from RKO suggesting that John persuade the police from shooting Kong because of the danger to Shirley: " Please see if you consider it practical to work out theme that John attempts single handed rescue on top of Empire State Building if police will let off shooting for a minute.

To Donald J. Childs, the poem attempts to present the theme of Christianity from the viewpoint of the Modernist individual with various references to the Incarnation and salvation.

He attempts to learn Lu-Tze's fifth surprise ( an ongoing theme in the novel as the sweeper refuses to tell him ), after which he is defeated in the iron dojo by Lu-Tze, but passes his training anyway and becomes a sweeper.

His principal defect is monotony: his own self is his solitary theme, and he seldom attempts any other form of composition than the sonnet.

Acts of violence are an important theme within Samson Agonistes as the play attempts to deal with revenge and the destruction of God's enemies.

“ Nature ”, is centered on the theme of, nonetheless, nature, in which Emerson lays out a problem that he attempts to solve throughout the essay ; a problem in which he believes man doesn ’ t fully accept nature ’ s beauty and all that it has to offer.

Another prominent theme in The Rebel, which is tied to the notion of incipient rebellion, is the inevitable failure of attempts at human perfection.

A common theme running through all Kane stories is the hero's weariness with his own immortality and his attempts to give his existence meaning.

Many scholarly attempts have been made to decipher the collation of the Exeter Book and to determine if works were placed in the manuscript by date or theme.

They developed the theme that they and their militia had defeated American attempts to annex Canada in the War of 1812.

The theme of the series is his captors ' attempts to extract information from him and his attempts to learn the identity of Number One and escape.

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

Another theme, sinuously chromatic, appears as he directs her to gain power over Grigori by any means, even at the cost of her honor.

we are reminded of this at the end of the next scene, when his theme cuts through the warmth of the love duet, again throwing a chill over the atmosphere.

They applauded every number, not only at its conclusion but also at the first statement of the theme -- sometimes at the first chord.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

In this reign of a weak Emperor dominated by court politics, a major theme was the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople at this period meant Goths.

Another game on this theme is his win over Paul Johner at Dresden 1926.

In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

The importance of this theme is indicated by its placement at the beginning and end of Second Isaiah ( 40: 3 – 5, 55: 12 – 13 ).

The theme of hesed is woven throughout Ruth, beginning at 1: 8 with Naomi blessing her two daughters-in-law as she urges them to return to their Moabite families.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

In Byzantine and Russian art, the theme of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae ( Τὸ ἐν Χωναῖς / Χῶναις Θαῦμα τοῦ Ἀρχαγγέλου Μιχαήλ ) is intimately linked with the site.

More recently, beginning at the 1997 CHOGM, the meeting has had an official ' theme ', set by the host nation, on which the primary discussions have been focused.

A number of scholars have connected the Christian story of the crucifixion at Golgotha with this theme of a cosmic center.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

The club's theme song is called " See the Bombers Fly Up " and is based on the tune of Johnnie Hamp's 1929 song " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " at an increased tempo.

In music, a fugue ( ) is a compositional technique ( in classical music ) in two or more voices, built on a subject ( theme ) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation ( repetition at different pitches ) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice ( after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way ); when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete.