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200 00$aRobert Graves and the classical tradition /$fedited by A.G.G. Gibson$b[electronic resource]
205   $aFirst edition.
210  1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2016.
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225 1 $aClassical presences
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aList of Contributors -- Introduction / A.G.G. Gibson -- 1. 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves's Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction / Andrew Bennett -- 2. Claudius in the Library / Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman -- 3. Homer's Daughter: Graves's Vera Historia / Sheila Murnaghan -- 4. Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius -- Genesis, Gender, and Truth / Shaun Tougher -- 5. Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World / Jon Coulston -- 6. The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior / Sonia Sabnis -- 7. 'Essentially a Moral Problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Translation / Philip Burton -- 8. Robert Graves's The Greek Myths and Matriarchy / Sibylle Ihm -- 9. Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves's The Greek Myths / Vanda Zajko -- 10. Freedom to Invent: Graves's Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity / Isobel Hurst -- 11. Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves / John Burnside -- 12. Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance? / Tom Palaima -- 13. 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves's Augustus in Mussolini's Italy / Jonathan Perry -- 14. Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius / A.G.G. Gibson -- 15. Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media / Mick Morris -- 16. The Anger of Achilles: A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves / Amanda Wrigley.
330 8 $aThis collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths.
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