1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910156292703321

Autore

Rogers Brett M.

Titolo

Classical traditions in modern fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-066107-0

0-19-061008-5

0-19-061007-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

809/.915

Soggetti

Fantasy fiction - Classical influences

Fantasy fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fantasies of antiquity / Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Classical apparitions in (pre-)modern fantasy -- Classical epic and the poetics of modern fantasy / Jesse Weiner -- Theorizing fantasy: enchantment, parody, and the classical tradition / Cecilie Flugt -- The mirror crack'd: fractured classicisms in the pre-Raphaelites and Victorian illustration / Genevieve S. Gessert -- Classical antiquity and the timeless horrors of H.P. Lovecraft / Robinson Peter Krämer -- False medievalism & other ancient fantasies -- Ancient underworlds in J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- C.S. Lewis's The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jeff Winkle -- A time for fantasy: retelling Apuleius in in C.S. Lewis's Till we have faces / Marcus Folch -- Children and (other) ancient monsters -- The classical pantheon in children's fantasy literature / Sarah Annes Brown -- Orestes & the half-blood prince: ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter series / Brett M. Rogers -- Filthy harpies and fictive knowledge in Philip Pullman's Dark materials trilogy / Antonia Syson -- Girls in bears' clothing in Greek mythology and Disney/Pixar's brave / Elizabeth Manwell -- (Post)modern fantasies of antiquity -- Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The brainsex paintings" (Plainwater) / Sasha-Mae Eccleston -- Aeneas' American new world in Jo Graham's Black ships / Jennifer A. Rea -- Genre, mimesis, and Virgilian intertext



in George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.

Sommario/riassunto

'Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy' presents 15 all-new essays on how fantasy draws on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003002979707536

Autore

Marek, Christian

Titolo

Die Proxenie / Christian Marek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt am Main : Lang, c1984

ISBN

3820475958

Descrizione fisica

IV, 484 p., [11] c. geogr. ; 21 cm

Collana

Europaische Hochschulschriften. Reihe 3, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften ; 213

Soggetti

Grecia - Politica e governo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000167889707536

Autore

Alonso, Marcelo

Titolo

Fundamental university physics : quantum and statistical physics / Marcelo Alonso, Edward J. Finn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reading [etc] : Addison Wesley, c 1968

Descrizione fisica

ix, 598 p. ; 21 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Finn, Edward J.

Disciplina

539.1

539.7

Soggetti

Fisica atomica

Struttura della materia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

La Biblioteca possiede soltanto il vol.3