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Travel and home in Homer's Odyssey and contemporary literature : critical encounters and nostalgic returns / Carol Dougherty.
LIBRA PR471 .D68 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dougherty, Carol, author.
- Series:
- Classical presences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Odyssey.
- Homer.
- 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
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