Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge , UK
Abstract
Abstract
In the summer of 2014, a group of Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs) designed and constructed a massive LEGO model of Homer’s Odyssey—a model worth analysing as an artistic adaptation of a canonical work of classical literature. Drawing on recent scholarship in the field of LEGO studies, this article examines this model in the context of LEGO as an artistic medium. It then considers the ways in which this model engages with modern conceptions of the idea of ‘epic’, while also using Mikhail Bakhtin’s distinction between epic and novel to explore some of the model’s more novelistic qualities. Finally, this article seeks to position the model within—and in opposition to—a wider landscape of LEGO-centric classical engagement.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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