Pope, the Odyssey and the Ontology of Language

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Pope, the Odyssey and the Ontology of Language is written by Nicholas Gayle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527547140 (ISBN 10) and 9781527547148 (ISBN 13).

This unique study examines the interface between contemporary philosophy and literature through Alexander Pope’s majestic translation of the Odyssey of Homer. Employing the lens supplied by the philosopher Graham Harman in his development of Object-Oriented Ontology, it explores the beautiful (and sometimes dazzling) figurative language of both Pope’s English and Homer’s Greek; in so doing, it uncovers something of the vast withdrawn and subterranean reality to which the poems can only allude, setting this against a contrasting sensual world—a world encrusted with shimmering images and objects that range from the quotidian to the metaphysically bizarre.