Ebook: Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon

A collection of essays exploring the crucial place of Homer in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the dialogue between texts across time and space.;Introduction-- I. PLACING HOMER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY-- 1. Homer after Parry: Tradition, Reception, and the Timeless Text-- 2. Singing across the Faultlines: Cultural Shifts in Twentieth-Century Receptions of Homer-- II. SCHOLARSHIP AND FICTION-- 3. Homer among the Irish: Synge, Yeats, George Thompson, and Parry-- 4. Homer and Joyce: The Case of Nausicaa-- 5. Homer in Albania: Oral Epic and the Geography of Literature-- III. DISTANCE AND FORM-- 6. Logue's Tele-vision: Reading Homer from a Distance-- 7. Some Assimilations of the Homeric Simile in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry-- 8. 'Homecomings without Home': Representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott-- 9. Theo Angelopoulos in the Underworld-- IV. POLITICS AND INTERPRETATION-- 10. Homer in the Greek Civil War (1946-49)-- 11. 'Naked' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?': The politics and poetics of epic cinema-- 12. An American Homer for the Twentieth Century.