Umfang:
x, 241 pages ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
9780814214640
,
0814214649
Serie:
Classical memories/modern identities
Inhalt:
"Explores the relationships between antiquity and modernity through C.P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's engagement with Odyssean tropes"--
Anmerkung:
Introduction: A poetics of indirection and telling it slant -- Diffusion and mixture. Homer: The Odyssey in a sea of difference ; Cavafy: diaspora, oblique encounters, and homoerotic desire ; Césaire: the colonial Antilles and a map of one's own spilled blood ; Woolf: tilting at Pagans' heads in a house that is a town -- Islands and isolation. Homer: from Calypso to the therapy of the word ; Cavafy: cosmopolitan isolation and sexual shaming ; Woolf: domestic katabasis and moments of being ; Césaire: Peléan eruptions and portraits of blood -- Passage and detour. Homer: Odysseus's wound and narrative detours ; Césaire: lagoons of blood and literary cannibalism ; Woolf: Constantinople and exile as carnival ; Cavafy: Mediterranean routes and ephebic visions -- Return and split endings. Homer: murder in the home and split endings ; Woolf: time warps and wild goose chases ; Césaire: the incised tree, the slave ship, and the pirogue ; Cavafy: hedonic ships on policed waters -- Epilogue: Toward an end
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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