{"product_id":"odyssean-identities-in-modern-cultures-hunter-gardner-9780814252970","title":"Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home","description":"Addressed to both classicists and students of modern culture, \u003ci\u003eOdyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home\u003c\/i\u003e traces the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e's central theme of homecoming in a wide range of narratives from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Accounts of the journey home in novels, plays, lyric poems, paintings, and a television series explore the challenges of returning from a long absence to reclaim a former life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These retellings raise fresh questions about the relationship between home and the identities we expect to find rooted there and stress the elusiveness of a satisfying homecoming. They remind us that the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e's happy ending is itself qualified by the hero's unsettled future, the violence of his return, and the independent desires of his friends and family members. At the same time, they highlight new obstacles to homecoming posed by the modern world with its political and economic upheavals, newly configured family relations and gender roles, and diminished confidence in the stability of identity. The authors discussed include Charlotte Yonge, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, George Seferis, Yannis Ritsos, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Frazier, W. B. Sebald, Marilynne Robinson, and Zachary Mason.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hunter Gardner, Sheila Murnaghan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814252974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Hunter Gardner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059835433215,"sku":"9780814252970","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccd99ec3-1f79-490f-9f94-4d6c4512882e.jpg?v=1685060599","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/odyssean-identities-in-modern-cultures-hunter-gardner-9780814252970","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}