Homer's Daughters
Title | Homer's Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Cox |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2019-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198802587 |
This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses both to the Odyssey and to the Iliad by women from around the world. The backgrounds of these authors and the genres they employ - memoir, poetry, children's literature, rap, novels - testify not only to the plasticity of Homeric epic, but also to the widening social classes to whom Homer appeals, and it is unsurprising to see the myriad ways in which women writers across the globe have played their part in the story of Homer's afterlife. From surrealism to successive waves of feminism to creative futures, Homer's footprint can be seen in a multitude of different literary and political movements, and the essays in this volume bring an array of critical approaches to bear on the work of authors ranging from H.D. and Simone Weil to Christa Wolf, Margaret Atwood, and Kate Tempest. Students and scholars of not only classics, but also translation studies, comparative literature, and women's writing will find much to interest them, while the volume's concluding reflections by Emily Wilson on her new translation of the Odyssey are an apt reminder to all of just how open a text can be, and of how great a difference can be made by a woman's voice.
Homer's Daughter
Title | Homer's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Graves |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2012-01-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 014197091X |
In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father's throne from usurpation, herself from a distasteful marriage, and her two younger brothers from butchery by boldly making things happen, instead of sitting still and hoping for the best.'
Homer's Daughters
Title | Homer's Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Cox |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192523546 |
This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses both to the Odyssey and to the Iliad by women from around the world. The backgrounds of these authors and the genres they employ - memoir, poetry, children's literature, rap, novels - testify not only to the plasticity of Homeric epic, but also to the widening social classes to whom Homer appeals, and it is unsurprising to see the myriad ways in which women writers across the globe have played their part in the story of Homer's afterlife. From surrealism to successive waves of feminism to creative futures, Homer's footprint can be seen in a multitude of different literary and political movements, and the essays in this volume bring an array of critical approaches to bear on the work of authors ranging from H.D. and Simone Weil to Christa Wolf, Margaret Atwood, and Kate Tempest. Students and scholars of not only classics, but also translation studies, comparative literature, and women's writing will find much to interest them, while the volume's concluding reflections by Emily Wilson on her new translation of the Odyssey are an apt reminder to all of just how open a text can be, and of how great a difference can be made by a woman's voice.
Homer's Daughter
Title | Homer's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Graves |
Publisher | Carcanet Press |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"The Odyssey has been described as a 'women's' epic, full of female characters and different in kind and colour from the Iliad with its tight focus and its largely male world. Graves's Nausicaa is a brilliant story-teller. She is a princess of mixed ancestry, combining in herself the various cultures that inform the language and folklore of the epic. She lives in a Greek-Trojan settlement in Sicily some time after the Trojan War. Graves makes it possible for us to believe that she tells her own, true story, buried within Homer's epic. There is adventure and intrigue; the book stands near the beginning of a tradition that includes Leonardo Sciascia's The Council of Egypt and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Nausicaa is smart and resilient. She solves the mystery of her brother's disappearance, then organises a counterplot, recalling Odysseus's bloody, triumphal return to Ithaca."--BOOK JACKET.
Homer's Daughter
Title | Homer's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Graves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Title | The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy PDF eBook |
Author | Padraic Colum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Mythology, Greek |
ISBN |
A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
Title | Notable American Women, 1607-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Radcliffe College |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 2172 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674627345 |
Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.