Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon
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 poems, performances, and traditions which were often deemed neither literary nor Western: the epics of Yugoslavia and sub-Saharan Africa, the keening performances of Irish women, the spontaneous inventiveness of the Blues. The book contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the writt…
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Weitere Autoren: Greenwood, Emily
- ISBN: 978-0-19-929826-6
- EAN: 9780199298266
- Produktnummer: 22675094
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.5 cm 531 g
- Gewicht: 531
Über den Autor
Barbara Graziosi is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Durham University.Emily Greenwood is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature at the University of St Andrews.
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