03276nam 2200505 450 991015629270332120210604165644.00-19-066107-00-19-061008-50-19-061007-7(CKB)3710000000985798(MiAaPQ)EBC4773435(StDuBDS)EDZ0001615813(PPN)224832913(EXLCZ)99371000000098579820170110h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierClassical traditions in modern fantasy /edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon StevensNew York, NY :Oxford University Press,2017.1 online resource (385 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.0-19-061006-9 0-19-061005-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.'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.Fantasy fictionClassical influencesFantasy fictionHistory and criticismFantasy fictionClassical influences.Fantasy fictionHistory and criticism.809/.915Rogers Brett M.1232350Rogers Brett M.Stevens Benjamin EldonMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910156292703321Classical traditions in modern fantasy2861279UNINA