{"product_id":"homer-in-the-twentieth-century-between-world-literature-and-the-western-canon-9780199298266","title":"Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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 that 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomer in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/em\u003e 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-traveled texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Graziosi, Emily Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.57h x 6.38w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199298266\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Graziosi\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Classics, Durham University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Greenwood\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Classics, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934198874227,"sku":"0199298262","price":277.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_eda556bd-a3c6-4b31-9146-b305a535b8ff.jpg?v=1647877430","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/homer-in-the-twentieth-century-between-world-literature-and-the-western-canon-9780199298266","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}