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.
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.
Kathleen Riley completed a DPhil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where she later held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Now a full-time writer, she specializes in classical reception, biography, and theatre history. She is the author of Nigel Hawthorne on Stage and The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness. She is also co-editor of Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity and, most recently, a contributor to Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses. Her book The Astaires: Fred and Adele has been optioned for a feature film currently in development.
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* Introduction: Home from Homer * 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)
* Introduction: Home from Homer * 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)
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