Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns

by Carol Dougherty

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198814011
• ISBN13: 9780198814016
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.6"