• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Travel and home in Homer's Odyssey and contemporary literature : critical encounters and nostalgic returns
  • Contributor: Dougherty, Carol [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
  • Published in: Classical presences
    Oxford scholarship online
  • Issue: First edition.
  • Extent: 1 online resource
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814016.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191851681
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  • Keywords: Homer Odyssey ; Ondaatje, Michael 1943- English patient ; Robinson, Marilynne Housekeeping ; McCarthy, Cormac 1933- Road ; West, Rebecca 1892-1983 Return of the soldier ; Morrison, Toni Home ; Travel in literature ; Home in literature
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  • Footnote: This edition also issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 11, 2019)
  • Description: 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.