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by Riley (Author)
By examining an eclectic range of creative works, spanning the century following the Armistice of 1918, Imagining Ithaca presents a narrative of imaginings and experiences, simple and complex, relating to home, longings for home and things absent, homecoming and exile.
Author Biography
Kathleen Riley
Kathleen Riley completed a DPhil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where she later held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Now a full-time writer, she specializes in classical reception, biography, and theatre history. She is the author of Nigel Hawthorne on Stage and The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness. She is also co-editor of Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity and, most recently, a contributor to Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses. Her book The Astaires: Fred and Adele has been optioned for a feature film currently in development.