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

Other author Graziosi, Barbara.
Other author Greenwood, Emily.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Homer--Criticism and interpretation. --History. --20th century.
Homer--Influence.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --Greek influences.

SeriesClassical presences
Classical presences. ^A611052
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, and Parry / 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 Tablin -- '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.
General noteThe essays stem from a conference held in Durham, England, July 20-23, 2004.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [286]-311) and index.
LCCN 2007005777
ISBN9780199298266 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199298262 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PA4037 .H7775 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold