Murnaghan, Sheila2023-05-222023-05-222014-01-012017-01-13Murnaghan, Sheila. (2014). The Misadventure of Staying Home: Thwarted Nostos in De Chirico and Rebecca West. In Hunter Gardner and Sheila Murnaghan (Eds.), Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home, (pp. 112-132). Columbus: Ohio State University Press.https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8033From the Odyssey onwards, the long nostos tradition has at times called J attention to a paradoxical insight: the challenges and rewards of homecoming can be experienced by those who never leave home. If being at home means more than being physically located in a certain place, then the dynamics of presence and absence, loss and recovery, that make up nostos can be played out within a single setting. Something new can be gained that makes the non-traveler somehow more "at home" than before. Or the obstacles to a successful experience of outward journey and smooth reintegration may not be intrusions from the outside, but internal, homegrown impediments.Arts and HumanitiesClassicsBook Chapter