Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns
- ISBN-10
- 019185168X
- ISBN-13
- 9780191851681
- Category
- Home in literature
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Author
- Carol Dougherty
Description
Bringing the Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts, this volume offers new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home, prompting readers to ask new questions of that well-read text around the themes of improvisation, nostalgia, domesticity, and mobility.
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Other editions
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- 2019-06-24
- 176 pages
- Paperback
- Classical Presences
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- 2019-06-20
- 208 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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- 2019-06-20
- 208 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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