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Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future. / Spiers, Emily.
Homer's Daughters: Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. ed. / Fiona Cox; Elena Theodorakopoulos. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. (Classical Presences).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Kate Tempest: A ‘Brand New Homer’ for a Creative Future
AU - Spiers, Emily
PY - 2019/10/10
Y1 - 2019/10/10
N2 - This chapter explores the re-workings of Homeric epic narrative and ancient classical myth by the British poet Kate Tempest, including the epic poem Brand New Ancients (2013), and the poem sequence Hold Your Own (2014). Tempest uses the poetic medium to formulate future possibilities for those excluded from the political and economic processes shaping the future and to stage the intersubjective encounter characterizing both selfhood and literary engagement. By urging readers and audience to view themselves not as passive citizen-consumers veering towards an open future being shaped by everyone but them, but instead as profoundly mythical beings capable of ‘everyday odysseys’, Tempest’s work constitutes a call for people to become invested in a future they will help to shape. This, in turn, points the way to a creative future that re-establishes literature as an urgent, socially relevant practice and a potentially transformative tool for social and political change.
AB - This chapter explores the re-workings of Homeric epic narrative and ancient classical myth by the British poet Kate Tempest, including the epic poem Brand New Ancients (2013), and the poem sequence Hold Your Own (2014). Tempest uses the poetic medium to formulate future possibilities for those excluded from the political and economic processes shaping the future and to stage the intersubjective encounter characterizing both selfhood and literary engagement. By urging readers and audience to view themselves not as passive citizen-consumers veering towards an open future being shaped by everyone but them, but instead as profoundly mythical beings capable of ‘everyday odysseys’, Tempest’s work constitutes a call for people to become invested in a future they will help to shape. This, in turn, points the way to a creative future that re-establishes literature as an urgent, socially relevant practice and a potentially transformative tool for social and political change.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780198802587
T3 - Classical Presences
BT - Homer's Daughters
A2 - Cox, Fiona
A2 - Theodorakopoulos, Elena
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -