“always almost”—Rewriting, Translation and Erasure in Alice Oswald’s Poetry

A large part of Alice Oswald’s poetry engages with classical Greek myths. Memorial (2011) and Nobody (2019) are both rewritings of—respectively—The Iliad and The Odyssey, while Falling Awake (2016) contains versions of Orpheus’ death and the myth of Tithonus. A trained classicist, Oswald reads the o...

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Main Author:	Goursaud, Bastien
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle 2026
Subjects:	poetry translation Homer Alice Oswald erasure Memorial oral poetry traduction poétique Homère effacement poésie orale
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.4000/164uz https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/164uz https://journals.openedition.org/palimpsestes/9826
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