1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464885103321

Autore

Cho Yu-Fang <1974->

Titolo

Uncoupling American empire : cultural politics of deviance and unequal difference, 1890-1910 / / Yu-Fang Cho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4384-4900-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in multiethnic literature

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Marriage in literature

Marriage in popular culture

Deviant behavior in literature

Deviant behavior in mass media

Cultural pluralism - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Uncertain domesticity -- part II. Trans-Pacific archives unbound.

Sommario/riassunto

"A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered "deviant" in the nineteenth-century American imagination"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958489803321

Autore

Dougherty Carol

Titolo

The raft of Odysseus : the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey / / Carol Dougherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770503-0

1-280-83308-4

0-19-535145-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

883.01

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Geography, Ancient, in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Ocean travel in literature

Ethnology in literature

Commerce in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey; I. Setting Sail; II. Phaeacia, Gateway to the Ethnographic Imagination; III. Home at Last; Conclusion: From Raft to Bed; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Raft of Odysseus offers an interpretation of Homer's Odyssey rooted in the issues of overseas travel, trade and settlement that dominated the early archaic period in Greece.