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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature - Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns (Hardcover)
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature - Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature
brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts
ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne
Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce
new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects
of Homer's iconic story of travel and home. While some novels share
with the Odyssey a celebration of the creative process of
improvisation to rethink the relationship between home and travel,
others draw upon nostalgia - our complicated longing for home - to
unsettle the inevitability of return. Rather than offering an
explicit retelling of Homer's poem, each of these novels prompts us
to revisit the relationship between travel and home that Odysseus
and Penelope embody to ask new questions of that well-read text.
Does travel reinforce or destabilize our notion of home? Are
mobility and domesticity irrevocably gendered, or can we imagine a
world in which Penelope travels and Odysseus stays home? Just as
Odysseus continually reinvents his own identity with each new
encounter, both abroad and at home, so too we, as readers,
participate in an improvisatory interpretive experiment of our own.
This volume sets out a new model for reading ancient and
contemporary texts together - one that challenges the conventional
chronological assumptions inherent in many works of classical
reception. No longer a stable text to which we as readers return
time and again to find it the same, the Odyssey, together with the
novels with which it engages, changes and adapts with each new
literary encounter.
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