Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0060926

Zusammenfassung

The "Odyssey" is one of the best-remembered stories in world literature and world history. This 'old' story has been used across almost three millennia, again and again, as a resource to tell new stories, and to represent a broad spectrum of very different experiences. The Odyssey is a 'travelling memory', which, through translation, canonization, and colonialism, has achieved a truly global spread. This book understands the 'remediations' of classics (e.g., rewritings, adaptations) as productive acts of cultural recall. It shows how the Odyssey has been used to articulate 'modern memo...