| 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 |
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 dialogue between texts across time and space. - ;This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with p |
| Analysis |
World literature |
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Western canon |
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Twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-311) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century
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Homer -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Homer. cantic |
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Homer. fast (OCoLC)fst00029137 |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Greek influences
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature, Modern -- Greek influences.
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Ilias (Homerus)
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Odyssea (Homerus)
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Receptie.
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Interpretatie.
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Influència literària.
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Cànon (Literatura)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Graziosi, Barbara
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Greenwood, Emily.
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| LC no. |
2007005777 |
| ISBN |
9780191538308 |
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0191538302 |
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9786611155278 |
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6611155279 |
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0199591318 |
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9780199591312 |
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1281155276 |
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9781281155276 |
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1429489979 |
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9781429489973 |
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