Title: Modern odysseys : Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a poetics of indirection /
Authors: Zerba, Michelle, 1953-
Year: 2021
Subjects: Homer. Influence.; Cavafy, Constantine, Criticism and interpretation.; Woolf, Virginia, Criticism and interpretation.; Césaire, Aim Criticism and interpretation.; Cavafy, Constantine,; Césaire, Aim; Woolf, Virginia,; Odyssey (Homer); Modernism (Literature); Literature, Modern History and criticism; Classical literature Influence.; Classical literature Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature, Modern; Modernism (Literature)
Abstract: "Explores the relationships between antiquity and modernity through C.P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's engagement with Odyssean tropes"--
Contents: Introduction: A poetics of indirection and telling it slant -- Diffusion and mixture. Homer: The Odyssey in a sea of difference ; Cavafy: diaspora, oblique encounters, and homoerotic desire ; Césaire: the colonial Antilles and a map of one&#x2019;s own spilled blood ; Woolf: tilting at Pagans&#x2019; heads in a house that is a town -- Islands and isolation. Homer: from Calypso to the therapy of the word ; Cavafy: cosmopolitan isolation and sexual shaming ; Woolf: domestic katabasis and moments of being ; Césaire: Peléan eruptions and portraits of blood -- Passage and detour. Homer: Odysseus&#x2019;s wound and narrative detours ; Césaire: lagoons of blood and literary cannibalism ; Woolf: Constantinople and exile as carnival ; Cavafy: Mediterranean routes and ephebic visions -- Return and split endings. Homer: murder in the home and split endings ; Woolf: time warps and wild goose chases ; Césaire: the incised tree, the slave ship, and the pirogue ; Cavafy: hedonic ships on policed waters -- Epilogue: Toward an end.