Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War

by Kathleen Riley

'Though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one', said Charles Dickens, 'stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.' The ancient Greek word nostos, meaning homecoming or return, has a commensurate power and mystique. Irish philosopher-poet John Moriarty described it as 'a teeming word... a haunted word... a word to conjure with'. The most celebrated and culturally enduring nostos is that of Homer's Odysseus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198852975
• ISBN13: 9780198852971
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"