Excavations in Homer: speculative archaeologies in Alice Oswald’s and Barbara Köhler’s responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey
The essay offers a comparative examination of Alice Oswald’s Memorial (2011), which re-works material from the Iliad, and the German poet Barbara Köhler’s poem cycle Niemands Frau (Nobody’s Wife, 2007), which responds to the Odyssey. I argue that in dissolving the narrative line that characterizes H...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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