Three rings a tale of exile, narrative, and fate
The Lycée Français -- The Education of Young Girls -- The Temple
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Zusammenfassung: | The Lycée Français -- The Education of Young Girls -- The Temple "This book explores the themes of exile and wandering, homecoming and fated closures in literature-but also in real life and history-by invoking Homer's Odyssey. Focusing on crucial moments in the lives and careers of three scholar/writers-Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W.G. Sebald-all of whom were inspired by Homer's epic, Three Rings uses "ring composition" (Homer's dominant narrative technique) to tell the stories of the three writers' lives"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Entstand aus dem Vortrag "A Digression: Narrative Afterlives of The Odyssey", der im Rahmen der Page-Barbour lectures 2019 an der University of Virginia stattfand |
Beschreibung: | 116 Seiten 21 cm |
ISBN: | 9780813944661 978-0-8139-4466-1 081394466X 0-8139-4466-X |