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Barcode30053003527663
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No880.09 WILS
Title Crossing the wine-dark sea : journeys through ancient literature / Emily Wilson.
Author Wilson, Emily R., 1971- author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 800-899
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003527663880.09 WILS10/1/2026 Available

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Personal Name Wilson, Emily R., 1971- author.
Title Statement Crossing the wine-dark sea : journeys through ancient literature / Emily Wilson.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2026.
Physical Description 288 pages ; 21 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc. "In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over "foreignizing" and "domesticizing" styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Civilization, Ancient.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Classical literature Translating.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Translating and interpreting Social aspects.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Translating and interpreting Philosophy.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Translating and interpreting Political aspects.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Classical literature Translations History and criticism.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Classical literature Appreciation.
Index Term-Genre/Form Literary criticism. lcgft

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