| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
The 20th century saw many contrasting approaches to Homer. On the one hand, Homer was often seen as the father of the western literary canon, the first author in a genealogy that included canonical poets such as Apollonius, Virgil, Dante, and Milton. On the other, Homeric poetry was thought to have strong affinities with poems, performances, and traditions that were sometimes deemed neither literary nor western: the epic of Yugoslavia and sub-Saharan Africa, the keening performances of Irish women, the spontaneous inventiveness of the Blues. This collection of essays attempts to trace the tensions and connections between different visions of Homer in the 20th century. Part I investigates the place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscapes of the 20th century; Part II explores the connections between scholarly and creative approaches to the Homeric poems; Part III looks at some of the means through which writers, poets, scholars, and film-makers mapped their distance from Homer; and Part IV discusses the political and interpretative challenges posed by reading (and not reading) Homer in the 20th century. The book contributes to current debates about the nature of the western literary canon, the evolving concept of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the dialogue between texts across time and space. It argues that the Homeric poems played an important role in shaping those debates and, conversely, that the experiences of the 20th century opened new avenues for the interpretation of Homer's much-travelled texts |
| Notes |
The essays stem from a conference held in Durham, England, July 20-23, 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-311) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century
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Homer -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Homer fast |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Greek influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature, Modern -- Greek influences
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Graziosi, Barbara
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Greenwood, Emily.
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| ISBN |
9780191538308 |
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0191538302 |
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9780191711602 |
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0191711608 |
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