Imagining Ithaca : nostos and nostalgia since the Great War / Kathleen Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Kathleen, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home in literature.

Homecoming in literature.

Exiles in literature.

Home in art.

Homecoming in art.

Exiles in art.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

Nostos (The Greek word).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

331 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. `LIKE STRANGERS IN THOSE LANDSCAPES OF OUR YOUTH': WAR AND IMPOSSIBLE NOSTOS

1. Rebecca West's The Return Of The Soldier (1918)

2. Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front (1929)

3. William Wyler S The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)

4. David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)

II. `A DEEP YEARNING FOR A RETURN TO THE SOURCE': REWRITING HOMER

5. John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)

6. Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry Of Winnie Mandela (2003)

7. Tamar Yellin's `Return To Zion' (2006)

III. `ONE IS ALWAYS AT HOME IN ONE'S PAST': THE NOSTALGIA OF EXILE

8. Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1951)

9. Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) And Under My Skin (1994)

10. Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) And An Englishman Abroad (1983)

IV. `ACROSS A STRANGE COUNTRY TO THEIR HOMELAND': NOSTOS AND THE DISPLACED SPIRIT

11. Carson Mccullers's `Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)

12. Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow The Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)

13. Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris (2011)

V. `IN THE PLACE CALLED ADULTHOOD THERE'S PRECIOUS FEW GOLDEN AFTERNOONS': RETURNING TO THE PLACE CALLED CHILDHOOD

14. George Orwell's Coming Up For Air (1939)

15. John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)

16. John Logan's Peter And Alice (2013)

VI. `ALL SONS ARE TELEMACHUS FIGURES': VOYAGES ROUND THE FATHER

17. Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada To Salamanca (1999)

18. Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District And Circle (2006), And Human Chain (2010)

19. Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, And An Epic (2017).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index.

ISBN:

0198852975

9780198852971

OCLC:

1199328843