The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic - Couverture souple

Armitage, Simon

 
9780393330816: The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0393330818 ISBN 13 : 9780393330816
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

Synopsis

In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries--Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops--as he and his men are "pinballed between islands" of adversity. One of the most individual voices of his generation, Armitage revitalizes our sense of the Odyssey as oral poetry, as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales.

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À propos de l?auteur

Simon Armitage is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and poet laureate of the United Kingdom. He has published ten collections of poetry and is the author of four stage plays, over a dozen television films, a libretto, two novels, and three memoirs. His poetry has won numerous awards, including a Gregory Award, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393330818
ISBN 13 
9780393330816
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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