Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon 0199591318, 9780199591312

This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth centur

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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.

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