{"product_id":"travel-and-home-in-homers-odyssey-and-contemporary-literature-critical-encounters-and-nostalgic-returns-9780198814016","title":"Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns","description":"\u003cem\u003eTravel and Home in Homer's\u003c\/em\u003e Odyssey \u003cem\u003eand Contemporary Literature\u003c\/em\u003e brings Homer's \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's \u003cem\u003eThe Return of the Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e to Marilynne Robinson's \u003cem\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/em\u003e and Cormac McCarthy's \u003cem\u003eThe Road\u003c\/em\u003e to produce new readings that reframe, \u003cbr\u003ereorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home. While some novels share with the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e a celebration of the creative process of improvisation to rethink the relationship between home and travel, others draw upon nostalgia - our complicated longing for home - to\u003cbr\u003eunsettle the inevitability of return. Rather than offering an explicit retelling of Homer's poem, each of these novels prompts us to revisit the relationship between travel and home that Odysseus and Penelope embody to ask new questions of that well-read text. Does travel reinforce or destabilize\u003cbr\u003eour notion of home? Are mobility and domesticity irrevocably gendered, or can we imagine a world in which Penelope travels and Odysseus stays home? Just as Odysseus continually reinvents his own identity with each new encounter, both abroad and at home, so too we, as readers, participate in an\u003cbr\u003eimprovisatory interpretive experiment of our own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume sets out a new model for reading ancient and contemporary texts together - one that challenges the conventional chronological assumptions inherent in many works of classical reception. No longer a stable text to which we as readers return time and again to find it the same, the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003etogether with the novels with which it engages, changes and adapts with each new literary encounter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Dougherty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198814016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Dougherty, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Classical Studies and Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature, Wellesley College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarol Dougherty is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught for thirty years. She did her undergraduate work in Classics at Stanford University and graduate work at UC Santa\u003cbr\u003eBarbara and Princeton University, and has written numerous books and articles on travel and cross-cultural contact in Greek myth and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932111224947,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_288fefa3-343d-42a3-b470-b9079c417080.jpg?v=1647790256","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/travel-and-home-in-homers-odyssey-and-contemporary-literature-critical-encounters-and-nostalgic-returns-9780198814016","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}