Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War

ISBN-13: 9780198852971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

Kathleen Riley

Opis

By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, Imagining Ithaca presents a narrative of imaginings and experiences, simple and complex, relating to home, longings for home and things absent, homecoming and exile.

Recenzje

Imagining Ithaca opens new prospects for thinking about and with the Odyssey more broadly ... By taking us on a truly odyssean tour of many cities and many minds, she has laid the groundwork for much future research on these materials. KATERINA STERGIOPOULOU, The Classical Review

O autorze

Kathleen Riley completed a DPhil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where she later held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Now a full-time writer, she specializes in classical reception, biography, and theatre history. She is the author of Nigel Hawthorne on Stage and The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness. She is also co-editor of Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity and, most recently, a contributor to Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses. Her book The Astaires: Fred and Adele has been optioned for a feature film currently in development.