Open AccessAn Ulsterman Named Achilles
Author(s) -
Gerson Schade
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
symbolae philologorum posnaniensium graecae et latinae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2305
pISSN - 0302-7384
DOI - 10.14746/sppgl.2019.xxix.1.9
Subject(s) - intertextuality , gaze , irish , literature , the renaissance , poetry , art , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , art history , artificial intelligence
Schade Gerson, An Ulsterman Named Achilles (Ulsterczyk o imieniu Achilles).A new novel by an English-writing author turns out to be a careful reworking of the story of Achilles, as it is told by Homer. The article elucidates how the modern text works and suggests how it may relate to an ‘Irish’ gaze. A new term, décalage, is introduced to describe a particular poetic device that belongs to the many ways of establishing intertextuality.