... of rhetorical strategies but with different emphases. A reading of one in light of the others reveals new information about Chinese and Western theories of representation and metaphoricity. For example, Homer makes his audience alternate between belief and disbelief in the scenes engraved on Achilles's shield...

.... At a pragmatic level it can help us make sense of the fact that there are over eighty English translations of Homer's Iliad ( edu.nl/489pm ) as well as the unending contestation over competing translations of Paul Celan's poetry into various languages, including Chinese. 35 (Homer and Celan represent...

.... Besides a subject of academic study, they have been an integral part of his poetry and poetics throughout his career. Yang Mu refers to Keats, a longtime poetic model of his, as someone who, “at the age of twenty-one, held up Homer and Virgil as the artistic paradigms he aspired to” 濟慈——他二十一歲的詩就以荷馬和魏吉爾懸為藝...

... representation of artistic objects representing real-life scenes and events. In reading Xunzi's 荀子 (c. 310–c. 235) depiction of funerary objects in his “Lilun” 禮論 (Discourse on Rituals) and Homer's (fl. ca. 8th cent. BCE) account of the shield of Achilles, Ekström probes the blurring of boundaries between...

...-garde's renewed challenge: What can literature do to cope with and even overcome our current state of affairs? Modernism's intertextual engagement with the classics is not without precedence. In the Anglo-European tradition, James Joyce (1882–1941) famously transformed the Homeric epic Odyssey...