FABLE EXCERPT: FOREIGN PARTS

Or have you, like Ulysses, wandered o'er

the world, and visited its every shore,

noting the manners, customs, and the arts

that stamp the character of foreign parts?

I. Note the following expressions:

• "the world's every shore"
• "foreign parts"

Why would I feel inclined to put this excerpt in this blog?

 II. Compare the excerpt to the one below, which was previously featured on this blog:

Strange nations lived and spoke to her; and as she spoke to them she learned their language.

It features the expression

"Strange nations"

to be compared to the two highlighted above.

III. The theme of foreignness and being abroad pervades many posts in this blog. Can there be any reason for the comeuppance of this leitmotif? See below for motifs in her literary production:

foreignness/abroad
queer relationships
free love in general
equality
freethought
challenging authorities
"freakshow Romanticism" (itinerant life of entertainers)
warfare Romanticism
self vs. self
self vs. others
self vs. fate
learned characters, especially learned females
spirited females
critique of zealotry (religious, ideological)
critique of social issues around love life 
semi-urban (both courtly and military, sometimes industrial) settings, apart from wild nature
the fair folk
promises are sacred
eccentric and/or emotionally challenged characters
lieutenancy/lieutenants
most male heroes, in their teens, look girlish or eunuch-like (even military officers)
herstory
Andersenian POV/non-human characters (for instance, "The Eternal Return" on a plum blossom)
folktale motifs and plots
females in positions of power, often next to deceased or weak male partners
lead characters young, attractive, and of certain standing
injuries, illnesses, and the effects of drugs
the internal state of the characters (when unhealthy due to one of the causes above)
tragic death: often quick, painful, violent, and self-inflicted. In her first tales, reserved for the leads. 
chaotic, uncontrollable emotions 
overreactions
intertextuality
twists and turning points
the unexpected (in "The Countess of Toggenburg" [spoilers!], there is a happy ending as opposed to that of Shakespeare's tragedy, and the ending shows how this story became Othello through a "telephone game")