
Imagining Ithaca
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- Introduction: Home from Homer
- Part I: 'Like strangers in those landscapes of our youth': War and impossible nostos
- 1: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)
- 2: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- 3: William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1945)
- 4: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter (1982)
- Part II: 'A deep yearning for a return to the source': Rewriting Homer
- 5: John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940)
- 6: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003)
- 7: Tamar Yellin's 'Return to Zion' (2006)
- Part III: 'One is always at home in one's past': The nostalgia of exile
- 8: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1951)
- 9: Doris Lessing's Going Home (1957) and Under My Skin (1994)
- 10: Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977) and An Englishman Abroad (1983)
- Part IV: 'Across a strange country to their homeland': Nostos and the displaced spirit
- 11: Carson McCullers's, 'Look Homeward, Americans' (1940)
- 12: Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
- 13: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Part V: 'In the place called Adulthood there's precious few golden afternoons': Returning to the place called Childhood
- 14: George Orwell's Coming Up for Air (1939)
- 15: John Van Druten's The Widening Circle (1957)
- 16: John Logan's Peter and Alice (2013)
- Part VI: 'All sons are Telemachus figures': Voyages round the father
- 17: Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys: Granada to Salamanca (1999)
- 18: Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010)
- 19: Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017)
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