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

ISBN: 0199298262

ISBN13: 9780199298266

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

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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...

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