Homer in the Twentieth Century - Between World Literature and the Western Canon

Zusatztext This fine collection of essays...covers important elements of the reception of Homer in the twentieth century in text and film.... The Editors have brought together a number of strong essays and made a genuine contribution to the study of Homer. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Barbara Graziosi, Emily Greenwood
• Assisted by: Barbara Graziosi (Editor), Barbara (Senior Lecturer in Classics Graziosi (Editor), Emily Greenwood (Editor), Emily (Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature Greenwood (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.09.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780199591312
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959131-2
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies