From Epic to Lyric: Alice Oswald’s and Barbara Köhler’s refigurings of Homeric Epic
This chapter examines two recent poetic responses to Homeric epic: Alice Oswald’s reworking of the Iliad in Memorial (2011) and Barbara Köhler’s cycle of Odyssey poems, Niemands Frau (2007), identifying their shared interest in dissolving the Homeric epic narrative line in favour of a gender-inflect...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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