Kathleen Riley (Writer and Writer classical scholar and classical
Imagining Ithaca C
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By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, Imagining Ithaca presents a narrative of imaginings and experiences, simple and complex, relating to home, longings for home and things absent, homecoming and exile.
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By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, Imagining Ithaca presents a narrative of imaginings and experiences, simple and complex, relating to home, longings for home and things absent, homecoming and exile.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 610g
- ISBN-13: 9780198852971
- ISBN-10: 0198852975
- Artikelnr.: 60478141
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 610g
- ISBN-13: 9780198852971
- ISBN-10: 0198852975
- Artikelnr.: 60478141
Kathleen Riley completed a DPhil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where she later held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Now a full-time writer, she specializes in classical reception, biography, and theatre history. She is the author of Nigel Hawthorne on Stage and The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness. She is also co-editor of Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity and, most recently, a contributor to Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses. Her book The Astaires: Fred and Adele has been optioned for a feature film currently in development.
* Introduction: Home from Homer
* Part I: 'Like strangers in those landscapes of our youth': War and
impossible nostos
* 1: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)
* 2: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
* 3: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1945)
* 4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
* Part II: 'A deep yearning for a return to the source': Rewriting
Homer
* 5: John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)
* 6: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003)
* 7: Tamar Yellin's 'Return to Zion' (2006)
* Part III: 'One is always at home in one's past': The nostalgia of
exile
* 8: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1951)
* 9: Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) and Under My Skin (1994)
* 10: Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) and An Englishman Abroad
(1983)
* Part IV: 'Across a strange country to their homeland': Nostos and the
displaced spirit
* 11: Carson McCullers's, 'Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)
* 12: Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
* 13: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011)
* Part V: 'In the place called Adulthood there's precious few golden
afternoons': Returning to the place called Childhood
* 14: George Orwell's Coming Up for Air (1939)
* 15: John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)
* 16: John Logan's Peter and Alice (2013)
* Part VI: 'All sons are Telemachus figures': Voyages round the father
* 17: Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada to Salamanca
(1999)
* 18: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District and Circle
(2006), and Human Chain (2010)
* 19: Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
(2017)
* Part I: 'Like strangers in those landscapes of our youth': War and
impossible nostos
* 1: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)
* 2: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
* 3: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1945)
* 4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
* Part II: 'A deep yearning for a return to the source': Rewriting
Homer
* 5: John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)
* 6: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003)
* 7: Tamar Yellin's 'Return to Zion' (2006)
* Part III: 'One is always at home in one's past': The nostalgia of
exile
* 8: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1951)
* 9: Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) and Under My Skin (1994)
* 10: Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) and An Englishman Abroad
(1983)
* Part IV: 'Across a strange country to their homeland': Nostos and the
displaced spirit
* 11: Carson McCullers's, 'Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)
* 12: Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
* 13: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011)
* Part V: 'In the place called Adulthood there's precious few golden
afternoons': Returning to the place called Childhood
* 14: George Orwell's Coming Up for Air (1939)
* 15: John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)
* 16: John Logan's Peter and Alice (2013)
* Part VI: 'All sons are Telemachus figures': Voyages round the father
* 17: Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada to Salamanca
(1999)
* 18: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District and Circle
(2006), and Human Chain (2010)
* 19: Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
(2017)
* Introduction: Home from Homer
* Part I: 'Like strangers in those landscapes of our youth': War and
impossible nostos
* 1: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)
* 2: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
* 3: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1945)
* 4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
* Part II: 'A deep yearning for a return to the source': Rewriting
Homer
* 5: John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)
* 6: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003)
* 7: Tamar Yellin's 'Return to Zion' (2006)
* Part III: 'One is always at home in one's past': The nostalgia of
exile
* 8: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1951)
* 9: Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) and Under My Skin (1994)
* 10: Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) and An Englishman Abroad
(1983)
* Part IV: 'Across a strange country to their homeland': Nostos and the
displaced spirit
* 11: Carson McCullers's, 'Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)
* 12: Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
* 13: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011)
* Part V: 'In the place called Adulthood there's precious few golden
afternoons': Returning to the place called Childhood
* 14: George Orwell's Coming Up for Air (1939)
* 15: John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)
* 16: John Logan's Peter and Alice (2013)
* Part VI: 'All sons are Telemachus figures': Voyages round the father
* 17: Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada to Salamanca
(1999)
* 18: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District and Circle
(2006), and Human Chain (2010)
* 19: Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
(2017)
* Part I: 'Like strangers in those landscapes of our youth': War and
impossible nostos
* 1: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)
* 2: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
* 3: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1945)
* 4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
* Part II: 'A deep yearning for a return to the source': Rewriting
Homer
* 5: John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)
* 6: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003)
* 7: Tamar Yellin's 'Return to Zion' (2006)
* Part III: 'One is always at home in one's past': The nostalgia of
exile
* 8: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1951)
* 9: Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) and Under My Skin (1994)
* 10: Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) and An Englishman Abroad
(1983)
* Part IV: 'Across a strange country to their homeland': Nostos and the
displaced spirit
* 11: Carson McCullers's, 'Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)
* 12: Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
* 13: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011)
* Part V: 'In the place called Adulthood there's precious few golden
afternoons': Returning to the place called Childhood
* 14: George Orwell's Coming Up for Air (1939)
* 15: John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)
* 16: John Logan's Peter and Alice (2013)
* Part VI: 'All sons are Telemachus figures': Voyages round the father
* 17: Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada to Salamanca
(1999)
* 18: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District and Circle
(2006), and Human Chain (2010)
* 19: Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
(2017)