２０世紀のホメロスと世界文学 Homer in the Twentieth Century : Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Classical Presences)

Graziosi, Barbara (EDT)/ Greenwood, Emily (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2010/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 336 p.／サイズ 7 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199591312
• DDC分類 883.01

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the dialogue between texts across time and space.

Full Description

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 of the Blues. The book contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the dialogue between texts across time and space. Homer in the Twentieth Century contends that the Homeric poems play an important role in shaping those debates and, conversely, that the experiences of the twentieth century open new avenues for the interpretation of Homer's much-travelled texts.

Contents

I. PLACING HOMER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ; II. SCHOLARSHIP AND FICTION ; III. DISTANCE AND FORM ; IV. POLITICS AND INTERPRETATION