TY - JOUR
T1 - Translation and transformation
T2 - Alice Oswald's excavation of the Iliad
AU - Minchin, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2014.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Alice Oswald's, Memorial, an 'excavation' of the Iliad, is a response to that ancient account of the grief and pain that is inevitably the outcome of war. Oswald herself describes the poem as an 'oral cemetery'. Borrowing some of the most conspicuous of Homer's traditional epic elements - his lists, biographies, and similes - and blending paraphrase and translation, Oswald has re-worked this early epic, creating a poem for today's world. This paper offers a close reading of Memorial, its themes and its composition, through the lens of Homer.
AB - Alice Oswald's, Memorial, an 'excavation' of the Iliad, is a response to that ancient account of the grief and pain that is inevitably the outcome of war. Oswald herself describes the poem as an 'oral cemetery'. Borrowing some of the most conspicuous of Homer's traditional epic elements - his lists, biographies, and similes - and blending paraphrase and translation, Oswald has re-worked this early epic, creating a poem for today's world. This paper offers a close reading of Memorial, its themes and its composition, through the lens of Homer.
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U2 - 10.1093/crj/clu005
DO - 10.1093/crj/clu005
M3 - Article
SN - 1759-5134
VL - 7
SP - 202
EP - 222
JO - Classical Receptions Journal
JF - Classical Receptions Journal
IS - 2
ER -