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Imagining Ithaca : nostos and nostalgia since the Great War / Kathleen Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Kathleen, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home in literature.
- Exiles in art.
- Homecoming in art.
- Home in art.
- Exiles in literature.
- Homecoming in literature.
- World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, 'Imagining Ithaca' presents a narrative of imaginings and experiences, simple and complex, relating to home, longings for home and things absent, homecoming and exile.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Home from Homer
- Nostalgia, Not What It Used to Be
- 'What These Ithakas Mean'
- Part I: 'Like Strangers in those Landscapes of our Youth': War and Impossible Nostos
- Chapter 1: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)
- Chapter 2: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Chapter 3: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Chapter 4: David Malouf 's Fly Away Peter (1982)
- Part II: ' A Deep Yearning for a Return to the Source': Rewriting Homer
- Chapter 5: John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)
- Chapter 6: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003)
- Chapter 7: Tamar Yellin's 'Return to Zion' (2006)
- Part III: 'One is Always at Home in one's Past': The Nostalgia of Exile
- Chapter 8: Vladimir Nabokov's: Speak, Memory (1951)
- Chapter 9: Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) and Under My Skin (1994)
- Chapter 10: Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) and An Englishman Abroad (1983)
- Part IV: 'Across a Strange Country to their Homeland: Nostos and the Displaced Spirit
- Chapter 11: Carson McCullers's 'Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)
- Chapter 12: Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
- Chapter 13: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Part V: 'In the Place Called Adulthood there's Precious few Golden Afternoons': Returning to the Place called Childhood
- Chapter 14: George Orwell's: Coming Up for Air (1939)
- Chapter 15: John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)
- Chapter 16: John Logan's Peter and Alice (2013)
- Part VI: 'All Sons are Telemachus Figures': Voyages Round the Father
- Chapter 17: Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada to Salamanca (1999).
- Chapter 18: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010)
- Chapter 19: Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017)
- Afterword
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-259442-7
- 0-19-188739-0
- 0-19-259441-9
- OCLC:
- 1243545164
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