Travel and home in Homer's Odyssey and contemporary literature : critical encounters and nostalgic returns / Carol Dougherty.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dougherty, Carol, author.

Series:

• Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Homer. Odyssey.
• Odyssey (Homer).
• Travel in literature.
• Home in literature.
• Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.
• Literature, Modern.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 164 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Contents:

• 1 "More like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient p. 21
• 2 "An end to housekeeping": Mobility and Domesticity in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping p. 45
• 3 "It's okay": Improvisational Housekeeping in Cormac McCarthy's The Road p. 71
• 4 "This house is different": Forgetting the Way Home in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier p. 93
• 5 "Come brother. Let's go home": Restorative Nostalgia in Toni Morrison's Home p. 115.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0198814011
• 9780198814016

OCLC:

1060578124