Fragmented Homers
Logue, Longley, Oswald
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12936588 |
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| Authors | Thomas A L Munro (0009-0003-8650-6861, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Receptions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-5134 • E-ISSN: 1759-5142 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/crj/claf012 |
| OpenAlex | W4417209307 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper compares three modern poets and the way in which their adaptations of the Iliad fragment their source text, providing a survey of the strategies used in Christopher Logue's War Music, Michael Longley's Homeric poetry (particularly in The Ghost Orchid), and Alice Oswald's Memorial. The paper concludes that the general similarity between their approaches can be attributed to attitudes about the fragment which developed among the Modernists, but that a range of reasons exist for divergences between the three poets. Educational background, literary affiliation, and (in particular) the context that each poet wrote in explain the unique ways in which their Homers are fragmented. The paper also considers the way in which fragmentation in each case is accompanied by transmedial or transgeneric transformations of the source text
Context (archaeology · First world war · Fragment (logic · Fragmentation (computing · Poetry · Similarity (geometry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Philology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960
Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
The Iliad as Ethical Thinking
Postclassicisms
The Iliad
Metamorphosis, mutability and the third wave
Translation' and Transformation
A word from another world’
Women's writing and the classical tradition
The Making of the Iliad
Piecing Together the Fragments
The Ulster Renaissance Poetry in Belfast 1962—1972
| Highly cited | No |
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