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Modern odysseys : Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a poetics of indirection
- Title
- Modern odysseys : Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a poetics of indirection / Michelle Zerba.
- Author
- Zerba, Michelle, 1953-
- Publication
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- x, 241 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Explores the relationships between antiquity and modernity through C.P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's engagement with Odyssean tropes"--
- Series Statement
- Classical memories/modern identities
- Uniform Title
- Classical memories/modern identities.
- Subject
- Homer. > Influence
- Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 > Criticism and interpretation
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
- Césaire, Aimé > Criticism and interpretation
- Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933
- Césaire, Aimé
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Odyssey (Homer)
- Modernism (Literature)
- Literature, Modern > History and criticism
- Classical literature > Influence
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Literature, Modern
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: A poetics of indirection and telling it slant -- Diffusion and mixture. Homer: The Odyssey in a sea of difference ; Cavafy: diaspora, oblique encounters, and homoerotic desire ; Césaire: the colonial Antilles and a map of one's own spilled blood ; Woolf: tilting at Pagans' heads in a house that is a town -- Islands and isolation. Homer: from Calypso to the therapy of the word ; Cavafy: cosmopolitan isolation and sexual shaming ; Woolf: domestic katabasis and moments of being ; Césaire: Peléan eruptions and portraits of blood -- Passage and detour. Homer: Odysseus's wound and narrative detours ; Césaire: lagoons of blood and literary cannibalism ; Woolf: Constantinople and exile as carnival ; Cavafy: Mediterranean routes and ephebic visions -- Return and split endings. Homer: murder in the home and split endings ; Woolf: time warps and wild goose chases ; Césaire: the incised tree, the slave ship, and the pirogue ; Cavafy: hedonic ships on policed waters -- Epilogue: Toward an end.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-5048
- ISBN
- 9780814214640
- 0814214649
- LCCN
- 2020036595
- 40030431268
- OCLC
- 1193112149
- Author
- Zerba, Michelle, 1953- author.
- Title
- Modern odysseys : Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a poetics of indirection / Michelle Zerba.
- Publisher
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Classical memories/modern identitiesClassical memories/modern identities.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030431268
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-5048