Imagining Ithaca
Imagining Ithaca
Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War
Riley, Kathleen
Oxford University Press
04/2021
352
Dura
Inglês
9780198852971
15 a 20 dias
598
Part 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 (1945)
4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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 (1945)
4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)