The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

ISBN-13: 9780198778295 / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str.

Dr Sarah (Indiana University) Van der Laan

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Sarah Van der Laan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She received her PhD in Renaissance Studies and English from Yale University and worked as a maître-assistante suppléante in the Département de langue et littérature anglaises of the Université de Genève before moving to Bloomington. Her teaching and research focus on the European epic tradition from Homer to Milton and on Renaissance literature, music, and culture, with special interests in the ethical value of literature, Renaissance epic and romance, Homeric reception, the intersections of epic and opera, and the place of music in the literary tradition.