Homer in the twentieth century : between world literature and the western canon / edited by Barbara Graziosi and Emily Greenwood.

Homer in the twentieth century : between world literature and the western canon /

A collection of essays exploring the crucial place of Homer in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the di...

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Other Authors: Graziosi, Barbara, Greenwood, Emily
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Homer > Criticism and interpretation > History > 20th century.
Homer > Influence.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > Greek influences.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Homer after Parry : tradition, reception, and the timeless text / Johannes Haubold
  • Singing across the faultlines : cultural shifts in twentieth-century receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick
  • Homer among the Irish : Yeats, Synge, Thomson / Richard Martin
  • Homer and Joyce : the case of Nausicaa / Stephen Minta
  • Homer in Albania : oral epic and the geography of literature / Barbara Graziosi
  • Logue's tele-vision : reading Homer from a distance / Emily Greenwood
  • Some assimilations of the Homeric simile in later twentieth-century poetry / Oliver Taplin
  • 'Homecomings without home' : representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott / Gregson Davis
  • Theo Angelopoulos in the underworld / Françoise Létoublon
  • Homer in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) / David Ricks
  • Naked and O brother, where art thou? The politics and poetics of epic cinema / Simon Goldhill
  • American Homer for the twentieth century / Seth L. Schein.

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