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Imagining Ithaca : nostos and nostalgia since the Great War
- Title
- Imagining Ithaca : nostos and nostalgia since the Great War / Kathleen Riley.
- Author
- Riley, Kathleen, 1974-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 331 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I. L̀IKE 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. À 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 R̀eturn To Zion' (2006) -- III. ÒNE 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. ÀCROSS A STRANGE COUNTRY TO THEIR HOMELAND': NOSTOS AND THE DISPLACED SPIRIT -- 11. Carson Mccullers's L̀ook Homeward, Americans' (1940) -- 12. Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow The Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) -- 13. Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris (2011) -- V. ÌN 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. ÀLL 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).
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3087
- ISBN
- 0198852975
- 9780198852971
- OCLC
- 1199328843
- Author
- Riley, Kathleen, 1974- author.
- Title
- Imagining Ithaca : nostos and nostalgia since the Great War / Kathleen Riley.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1914-1918
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3087