Homer’s Daughters Womens Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond 1st edition by Fiona Cox, Elena Theodorakopoulos 0198802587 9780192523549

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ISBN-10 :  0198802587 

ISBN-13 :  9780192523549

Author :  Fiona Cox, Elena Theodorakopoulos 

This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses both to the Odyssey and to the Iliad by women from around the world. The backgrounds of these authors and the genres they employ – memoir, poetry, children’s literature, rap, novels – testify not only to the plasticity of Homeric epic, but also to the widening social classes to whom Homer appeals, and it is unsurprising to see the myriad ways in which women writers across the globe have played their part in the story of Homer’s afterlife. From surrealism to successive waves of feminism to creative futures, Homer’s footprint can be seen in a multitude of different literary and political movements, and the essays in this volume bring an array of critical approaches to bear on the work of authors ranging from H.D. and Simone Weil to Christa Wolf, Margaret Atwood, and Kate Tempest. Students and scholars of not only classics, but also translation studies, comparative literature, and women’s writing will find much to interest them, while the volume’s concluding reflections by Emily Wilson on her new translation of the Odyssey are an apt reminder to all of just how open a text can be, and of how great a difference can be made by a woman’s voice.

Homer’s Daughters: Women’s Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond 1st Table of contents:

1. ‘After his wine-dark sea’: H.D. in Homer
2. Romantic Encounters with Homer in Elizabeth Cook’s
3. Female Homers: A Feminist nostos?
Weil and Bespaloff—Adversaries or Allies?
Feminist or Female nostos?
Homeric nostos
4. Christa Wolf’s Cassandra: Different Times, Different Views
5. Feminist at Second Glance? Alice Oswald’s Memorial as a Response to Homer’s Iliad
6. Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future
Introduction
Orality and Performance in a Post-Literate Era
Brand New Ancients
Hold Your Own
Coda: Creative Futures
7. Rereading Penelope’s Web: The Anxieties of Female Authorship in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
8. Excavations in Homer: Speculative Archaeologies in Alice Oswald’s and Barbara Köhler’s Responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey
Alice Oswald: Lament and pastoral in Homer’s Iliad
Barbara Köhler: The Great Web in Homer’s Odyssey
9. Between Night and Day: Barbara Köhler’s Lyric Odyssey
Penelope in the Snow
Recognition
Night
Schrödinger’s Cat
The Epilogue
10. Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women’s Poetry
11. The Forecast is Hurricane: Circe’s Powers and Circe’s Desires in Modern Women’s Poetry
12. Iberian Sibyl: Francisca Aguirre on Cavafy and the Journey Out of Ithaca
In Search of Ithaca
Aguirre’s Ithaca
Ithacan Geographies: Francisca Aguirre and C. P. Cavafy
You Won’t Find Another Shore
Reweaving our Ithacas, our Selves
13. ‘Cut down to size’: Female Voices and Adventure in Adèle Geras’s Ithaka
14. ‘Health isn’t making everybody into a Greek ideal’: Overcoming Abjection in Gwyneth Lewis’s A Hospital Odyssey
Meeting Monsters: Rethinking Abject Figurations of Cancer
Let’s Go Home: Love, Empathy, Remission
Concluding Thoughts
15. ‘Thinking through our mothers’: Cixous and Homer beyond the Third Wave
16. Epilogue: Translating Homer as a Woman

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