Table of contents : Introduction-- I. PLACING HOMER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY-- 1. Homer after Parry: Tradition, Reception, and the Timeless Text-- 2. Singing across the Faultlines: Cultural Shifts in Twentieth-Century Receptions of Homer-- II. SCHOLARSHIP AND FICTION-- 3. Homer among the Irish: Synge, Yeats, George Thompson, and Parry-- 4. Homer and Joyce: The Case of Nausicaa-- 5. Homer in Albania: Oral Epic and the Geography of Literature-- III. DISTANCE AND FORM-- 6. Logue's Tele-vision: Reading Homer from a Distance-- 7. Some Assimilations of the Homeric Simile in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry-- 8. 'Homecomings without Home': Representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott-- 9. Theo Angelopoulos in the Underworld-- IV. POLITICS AND INTERPRETATION-- 10. Homer in the Greek Civil War (1946-49)-- 11. 'Naked' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?': The politics and poetics of epic cinema-- 12. An American Homer for the Twentieth Century.