Lillian Corti

READING HOMER IN TIMES OF WAR, PLAGUE AND ROUTINE ADVERSITY: A MEMOIR (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Homer in Times of War, Plague and Routine Adversity is not only a memoir about reading and teaching one of the very greatest works of World Literature. It is also a tribute to the singers of songs, classical scholars, translators and poets who have made this splendid work of art available to millions of enchanted listeners and readers for thousands of years. In reflecting on her own experience of reading the bard, Corti underscores the ways in which the meaning of the Homeric epics is enriched with every subsequent reading, as the personal, familial, communal and cosmic events experienced by the reader augment her understanding of the texts. In short, this memoir celebrates the particular perceptions and illuminations which the reading of these universally revered poems has brought to one person's life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798369435038
• Artikelnr.: 73536929

Autorenporträt

After retiring from her position as Professor of World Literature and Women's Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Lillian Corti settled in Massachusetts where, as a member of the Worcester Institute for Senior Education, she continued to teach various courses for some years. When, at the last meeting of a course on African Literature, one of the people in the class asked if she would teach a course on the Iliad, Corti responded with initial confusion. Why would her WISE colleague make such a suggestion? In response to the question, her friend said that whatever Corti was teaching, she always referred to Achilles. Prompted by this exchange to propose a course on the beloved epic, Corti would spend the next year or so rereading the Iliad and the Odyssey along with her WISE companions, an experience that inspired her to write this memoir about the half century during which Homeric characters have been her constant companions.