Charting the reception of Homeric epic in the work of women writers around the globe since 1914, and covering a range of genres and literary and political movements, this volume sheds new light on an understudied facet of Homer's afterlife and on how contemporary women continue to shape the field of classical reception in new and distinctive ways.
Charting the reception of Homeric epic in the work of women writers around the globe since 1914, and covering a range of genres and literary and political movements, this volume sheds new light on an understudied facet of Homer's afterlife and on how contemporary women continue to shape the field of classical reception in new and distinctive ways.
Fiona Cox is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter. Her work focuses on the reception of classical literature, particularly in women's writing, and she has also published widely in the area of nineteenth-century French literature. Elena Theodorakopoulos grew up in Konstanz in Germany, and has been lecturing in Classics at the University of Birmingham for some years now. Her work focuses on Latin poetry and on the reception of classical literature in women's writing.
Inhaltsangabe
* Frontmatter * List of Figures * List of Contributors * 0: Fiona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos: Introduction * 1: Genevieve Liveley: After his wine-dark sea': H.D. in Homer * 2: Polly Stoker: Romantic Encounters with Homer in Elizabeth Cook's Achilles * 3: Catherine Burke: Female Homers: A Feminist nostos? * 4: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz: Christa Wolf's Cassandra: Different Times, Different Views * 5: Carolin Hahnemann: Feminist at Second Glance? Alice Oswald's Memorial as a Response to Homer's Iliad * 6: Emily Spiers: Kate Tempest: A 'Brand New Homer' for a Creative Future * 7: Jasmine Richards: Rereading Penelope's Web: The Anxieties of Female Authorship in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad * 8: Georgina Paul: Excavations in Homer: Speculative Archaeologies in Alice Oswald's and Barbara Köhler's Responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey * 9: Elena Theodorakopoulos: Between Night and Day: Barbara Köhler's Lyric Odyssey * 10: Isobel Hurst: Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women's Poetry * 11: Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts: The Forecast is Hurricane: Circe's Powers and Circe's Desires in Modern Women's Poetry * 12: Victoria Reuter: Iberian Sybil: Francisca Aguirre on Cavafy and the Journey out of Ithaca * 13: Francesca Richards: Cut down to size': Female Voices and Adventure in Adèle Geras' Ithaka * 14: Ruth MacDonald: Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal': Overcoming Abjection in Gwyneth Lewis's A Hospital Odyssey * 15: Fiona Cox: Thinking through our mothers': Cixous and Homer beyond the Third Wave * 16: Emily Wilson: Epilogue: Translating Homer as a Woman * Endmatter * Bibliography * Index
* Frontmatter * List of Figures * List of Contributors * 0: Fiona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos: Introduction * 1: Genevieve Liveley: After his wine-dark sea': H.D. in Homer * 2: Polly Stoker: Romantic Encounters with Homer in Elizabeth Cook's Achilles * 3: Catherine Burke: Female Homers: A Feminist nostos? * 4: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz: Christa Wolf's Cassandra: Different Times, Different Views * 5: Carolin Hahnemann: Feminist at Second Glance? Alice Oswald's Memorial as a Response to Homer's Iliad * 6: Emily Spiers: Kate Tempest: A 'Brand New Homer' for a Creative Future * 7: Jasmine Richards: Rereading Penelope's Web: The Anxieties of Female Authorship in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad * 8: Georgina Paul: Excavations in Homer: Speculative Archaeologies in Alice Oswald's and Barbara Köhler's Responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey * 9: Elena Theodorakopoulos: Between Night and Day: Barbara Köhler's Lyric Odyssey * 10: Isobel Hurst: Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women's Poetry * 11: Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts: The Forecast is Hurricane: Circe's Powers and Circe's Desires in Modern Women's Poetry * 12: Victoria Reuter: Iberian Sybil: Francisca Aguirre on Cavafy and the Journey out of Ithaca * 13: Francesca Richards: Cut down to size': Female Voices and Adventure in Adèle Geras' Ithaka * 14: Ruth MacDonald: Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal': Overcoming Abjection in Gwyneth Lewis's A Hospital Odyssey * 15: Fiona Cox: Thinking through our mothers': Cixous and Homer beyond the Third Wave * 16: Emily Wilson: Epilogue: Translating Homer as a Woman * Endmatter * Bibliography * Index
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