Homer's Daughters
Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 October 2019
- ISBN 9780198802587
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 223x146x27 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 black-and-white illustrations 76
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Short description:
Charting the reception of Homeric epic in the work of women writers around the globe since 1914, and covering a range of genres and literary and political movements, this volume sheds new light on an understudied facet of Homer's afterlife and on how contemporary women continue to shape the field of classical reception in new and distinctive ways.
MoreLong description:
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.
There is a great deal to learn from this book, and much to enjoy. It is one of the merits that the book is not limited to writers in the English language, but also includes women writers from France, Germany and Spain.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
After his wine-dark sea': H.D. in Homer
Romantic Encounters with Homer in Elizabeth Cook's Achilles
Female Homers: A Feminist nostos?
Christa Wolf's Cassandra: Different Times, Different Views
Feminist at Second Glance? Alice Oswald's Memorial as a Response to Homer's Iliad
Kate Tempest: A 'Brand New Homer' for a Creative Future
Rereading Penelope's Web: The Anxieties of Female Authorship in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
Excavations in Homer: Speculative Archaeologies in Alice Oswald's and Barbara Köhler's Responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey
Between Night and Day: Barbara Köhler's Lyric Odyssey
Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women's Poetry
The Forecast is Hurricane: Circe's Powers and Circe's Desires in Modern Women's Poetry
Iberian Sybil: Francisca Aguirre on Cavafy and the Journey out of Ithaca
Cut down to size': Female Voices and Adventure in Ad?le Geras' Ithaka
Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal': Overcoming Abjection in Gwyneth Lewis's A Hospital Odyssey
Thinking through our mothers': Cixous and Homer beyond the Third Wave
Epilogue: Translating Homer as a Woman
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
