Carol Dougherty

Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature

Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing the Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts, this volume offers new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home, prompting readers to ask new questions of that well-read text around the themes of improvisation, nostalgia, domesticity, and mobility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780198814016
• ISBN-10: 0198814011
• Artikelnr.: 56261471

Autorenporträt

Carol Dougherty is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught for thirty years. She did her undergraduate work in Classics at Stanford University and graduate work at UC Santa Barbara and Princeton University, and has written numerous books and articles on travel and cross-cultural contact in Greek myth and literature.

Inhaltsangabe

* 0: Introduction: Critical Encounters
* 1: "More Like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The
English Patient
* 2: "An End to Housekeeping": Mobility and Domesticity in Marilynne
Robinson's Housekeeping
* 3: "It's Okay": Improvisational Housekeeping in Cormac McCarthy's
The Road
* 4: "This House is Different": Forgetting the Way Home in Rebecca
West's The Return of the Soldier
* 5: "Come Brother. Let s Go Home": Restorative Nostalgia in Toni
Morrison's Home
* 6: Conclusion: Nostalgic Returns
* Bibliography
* Index