Homer in the Twentieth Century

Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Classical Presences)

Bibliographic Data

ID19968500
EditorsBarbara Graziosi, Emily Greenwood (0000-0003-0677-7649)
Year2007
Pages300
Publication date2007-06-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHomer in the Twentieth Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199298266.001.0001
OpenAlexW2479557981
ISBN9780199298266
Open LibraryOL10146602M
LanguageEN
Citations received15

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

Art · Canon · Literature · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · History · 20th century · Ancient & Classical · Ancient and Classical · Criticism · Criticism and interpretation · Essays · Greek influences · Greek poetry · Greek poetry, history and criticism · Hellenic languages · History and criticism · Homer · Influence · Literary Criticism · Literary Criticism & Collections · Literary studies: classical, early & medieval · Literature - Classics · Literature, Modern · Modern Literature · Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval

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