Modern Odysseys by Michelle Zerba

Modern Odysseys by Michelle Zerba

Michelle Zerba's Modern Odysseys explores three major writers in global modernism from the Mediterranean, Anglo-European Britain, and the Caribbean whose groundbreaking literary works have never been studied together before. Using language as an instrument of revolution and social change, C. P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aim C saire gave expression to the forms of human experience we now associate with modernity: homoeroticism, transsexuality, and racial consciousness. More specifically, Zerba argues that Odyssean tropes of diffusion, isolation, passage, and return give form to works by these writers but in ways that invite us to reconsider and revise the basic premises of reception studies and intellectual history.

Combining close readings of literary texts with the study of interviews, essays, diaries, and letters, Zerba advances a revisionary account of how to approach relationships between antiquity and modernity. Instead of frontal encounters with the Odyssey, Cavafy, Woolf, and C saire indirectly-but no less significantly-engage with Homer's epic poem. In demonstrating how such encounters operate, Modern Odysseys explores issues of race and sexuality that connect antiquity with the modern period.

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ISBN 13	9780814214640
ISBN 10	0814214649
Titel	Modern Odysseys
Autor	Michelle Zerba
Serie	Classical Memories Modern Identities
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Verlag	Ohio State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-02-01
Seitenanzahl	254
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