Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I. PLACING HOMER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 1. Homer after Parry: Tradition, Reception, and the Timeless Text -- 2. Singing across the Faultlines: Cultural Shifts in Twentieth-Century Receptions of Homer -- PART II. SCHOLARSHIP AND FICTION -- 3. Homer among the Irish: Yeats, Synge, Thomson, and Parry -- 4. Homer and Joyce: The Case of Nausicaa -- 5. Homer in Albania: Oral Epic and the Geography of Literature -- PART III. DISTANCE AND FORM -- 6. Logue's Tele-Vision: Reading Homer from a Distance -- 7. Some Assimilations of the Homeric Simile in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry -- 8. 'Homecomings without Home': Representations of (Post)colonial nostos (Homecoming) in the Lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott -- 9. Theo Angelopoulos in the Underworld -- PART IV. POLITICS AND INTERPRETATION -- 10. Homer in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) -- 11. Naked and O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Politics and Poetics of Epic Cinema -- 12. An American Homer for the Twentieth Century -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.