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The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; London, [England] : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.9335838 |
| Collana | Metaforms |
| Soggetto topico |
Children's literature - Classical influences
Children's literature - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-29860-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Lisa Maurice -- Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles / Lisa Maurice -- Classics, Children’s Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown’s Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle / Elizabeth Hale -- ‘Time is only a mode of thought, you know’: Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit’s Literature for Children / Joanna Paul -- (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical Mythology / Katarzyna Marciniak -- The Metanarrative of Picture Books: ‘Reading’ Greek Myth for (and to) Children / Barbara Weinlich -- Reading the Fiction of Video Games / Mary McMenomy -- From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature / Lisa Maurice -- Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia / Niall W. Slater -- Men into Pigs: Circe’s Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children / Sheila Murnaghan -- Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First-Century Children’s Fiction / Geoffrey Miles -- The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children / Deborah H. Roberts -- The “Grand Tour” as Transformative Experience in Children’s Novels about the Roman Invasion / Catherine Butler -- “Wulf the Briton”: Resisting Rome in a 1950's British Boys’ Adventure Strip / Tony Keen -- Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern / Eran Almagor -- Bibliography / Lisa Maurice -- Index / Lisa Maurice. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461106803321 |
| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; London, [England] : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; London, [England] : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.9335838 |
| Collana | Metaforms |
| Soggetto topico |
Children's literature - Classical influences
Children's literature - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
børne- og ungdomslitteratur
bsup |
| ISBN | 90-04-29860-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Lisa Maurice -- Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles / Lisa Maurice -- Classics, Children’s Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown’s Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle / Elizabeth Hale -- ‘Time is only a mode of thought, you know’: Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit’s Literature for Children / Joanna Paul -- (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical Mythology / Katarzyna Marciniak -- The Metanarrative of Picture Books: ‘Reading’ Greek Myth for (and to) Children / Barbara Weinlich -- Reading the Fiction of Video Games / Mary McMenomy -- From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature / Lisa Maurice -- Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia / Niall W. Slater -- Men into Pigs: Circe’s Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children / Sheila Murnaghan -- Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First-Century Children’s Fiction / Geoffrey Miles -- The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children / Deborah H. Roberts -- The “Grand Tour” as Transformative Experience in Children’s Novels about the Roman Invasion / Catherine Butler -- “Wulf the Briton”: Resisting Rome in a 1950's British Boys’ Adventure Strip / Tony Keen -- Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern / Eran Almagor -- Bibliography / Lisa Maurice -- Index / Lisa Maurice. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797565803321 |
| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; London, [England] : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; London, [England] : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.9335838 |
| Collana | Metaforms |
| Soggetto topico |
Children's literature - Classical influences
Children's literature - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
børne- og ungdomslitteratur
bsup |
| ISBN | 90-04-29860-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Lisa Maurice -- Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles / Lisa Maurice -- Classics, Children’s Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown’s Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle / Elizabeth Hale -- ‘Time is only a mode of thought, you know’: Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit’s Literature for Children / Joanna Paul -- (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical Mythology / Katarzyna Marciniak -- The Metanarrative of Picture Books: ‘Reading’ Greek Myth for (and to) Children / Barbara Weinlich -- Reading the Fiction of Video Games / Mary McMenomy -- From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature / Lisa Maurice -- Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia / Niall W. Slater -- Men into Pigs: Circe’s Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children / Sheila Murnaghan -- Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First-Century Children’s Fiction / Geoffrey Miles -- The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children / Deborah H. Roberts -- The “Grand Tour” as Transformative Experience in Children’s Novels about the Roman Invasion / Catherine Butler -- “Wulf the Briton”: Resisting Rome in a 1950's British Boys’ Adventure Strip / Tony Keen -- Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern / Eran Almagor -- Bibliography / Lisa Maurice -- Index / Lisa Maurice. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815580603321 |
| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; London, [England] : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture [[e-book] ] : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
| The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture [[e-book] ] : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 809.933583 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AlmagorEran
MauriceLisa <1968-> |
| Collana | Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico | Civilization, Classical, in mass media |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-34772-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Lisa Maurice -- Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Hanna M. Roisman -- Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Ariadne Konstantinou -- Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Eran Almagor -- Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Emma Stafford -- Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Anna Foka -- Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / Emma Southon -- “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Panayiota Mini -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / Maria Pretzler -- From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / Luca Asmonti -- The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Aggeliki Koumanoudi -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / David M. Schaps -- A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / Haim Weiss -- What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Gabriel Danzig. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494588303321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture [[e-book] ] : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
| The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture [[e-book] ] : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 809.933583 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AlmagorEran
MauriceLisa <1968-> |
| Collana | Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico | Civilization, Classical, in mass media |
| ISBN | 90-04-34772-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Lisa Maurice -- Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Hanna M. Roisman -- Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Ariadne Konstantinou -- Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Eran Almagor -- Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Emma Stafford -- Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Anna Foka -- Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / Emma Southon -- “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Panayiota Mini -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / Maria Pretzler -- From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / Luca Asmonti -- The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Aggeliki Koumanoudi -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / David M. Schaps -- A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / Haim Weiss -- What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Gabriel Danzig. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796042303321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture [[e-book] ] : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
| The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture [[e-book] ] : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 809.933583 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AlmagorEran
MauriceLisa <1968-> |
| Collana | Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico | Civilization, Classical, in mass media |
| ISBN | 90-04-34772-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Lisa Maurice -- Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Hanna M. Roisman -- Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Ariadne Konstantinou -- Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Eran Almagor -- Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Emma Stafford -- Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Anna Foka -- Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / Emma Southon -- “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Panayiota Mini -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / Maria Pretzler -- From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / Luca Asmonti -- The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Aggeliki Koumanoudi -- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / David M. Schaps -- A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / Haim Weiss -- What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Gabriel Danzig. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828999803321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Autore | Maurice Lisa <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism
English fiction - History and criticism American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction - History and criticism Comparative literature - Classical and modern Civilization, Ancient, in literature Greeks in literature Romans in literature Jews in literature Christians in literature |
| ISBN | 90-04-34638-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The ancient world and popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- Part 1. Rewriting the classics in crime fiction and thrillers -- From I, Claudius to private eyes : Rome and the detective in popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- A Roman and a foreigner : Lindsey Davis's new Roman detective series / Anat Koplowitz-Breier -- "An open account from the past always needs to be settled" : Chimaira (2001), The ancient curse (2010) and receiving the past / Claudia Fratini -- Part 2. Rewriting the ancient world in a modern setting -- Going home : Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The warriors (1965) / Eran Almagor -- The eagle and the mockingjay : reality television as Roman gladiator culture / Dor Yaccobi -- "Atalanta just married" : a case study in Greek mythology-based fan fiction / Amanda Potter -- Part 3. Rewriting myths of classical literature -- The loves of Achilles : from epic to popular fiction / Anne Sinha -- "Home is behind, the world ahead" : reading Tolkien's The hobbit as a story of Xenia or Homeric hospitality / Hamish Williams -- Cupid and psyche : a love story (?) in comics and children's literature / Lily Glasner -- Part 4. Rewriting Jews and Christians in the ancient world -- Sadducee and pharisee in "The antagonists" by E.K. Gann / Haim Perlmutter -- Emotion and reception of the ancient world in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ (1880) / Emily Chow-Kambitsch -- Jewish women writing historical novels based on rabbinic sources / Tal Ilan -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795924503321 |
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Autore | Maurice Lisa <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism
English fiction - History and criticism American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction - History and criticism Comparative literature - Classical and modern Civilization, Ancient, in literature Greeks in literature Romans in literature Jews in literature Christians in literature |
| ISBN | 90-04-34638-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The ancient world and popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- Part 1. Rewriting the classics in crime fiction and thrillers -- From I, Claudius to private eyes : Rome and the detective in popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- A Roman and a foreigner : Lindsey Davis's new Roman detective series / Anat Koplowitz-Breier -- "An open account from the past always needs to be settled" : Chimaira (2001), The ancient curse (2010) and receiving the past / Claudia Fratini -- Part 2. Rewriting the ancient world in a modern setting -- Going home : Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The warriors (1965) / Eran Almagor -- The eagle and the mockingjay : reality television as Roman gladiator culture / Dor Yaccobi -- "Atalanta just married" : a case study in Greek mythology-based fan fiction / Amanda Potter -- Part 3. Rewriting myths of classical literature -- The loves of Achilles : from epic to popular fiction / Anne Sinha -- "Home is behind, the world ahead" : reading Tolkien's The hobbit as a story of Xenia or Homeric hospitality / Hamish Williams -- Cupid and psyche : a love story (?) in comics and children's literature / Lily Glasner -- Part 4. Rewriting Jews and Christians in the ancient world -- Sadducee and pharisee in "The antagonists" by E.K. Gann / Haim Perlmutter -- Emotion and reception of the ancient world in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ (1880) / Emily Chow-Kambitsch -- Jewish women writing historical novels based on rabbinic sources / Tal Ilan -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819713603321 |
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Maurice Lisa <1968->
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice
| Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction / / edited by Lisa Maurice |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/81 |
| Collana | Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism
English fiction - History and criticism American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction - History and criticism Comparative literature - Classical and modern Civilization, Ancient, in literature Greeks in literature Romans in literature Jews in literature Christians in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-34638-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The ancient world and popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- Part 1. Rewriting the classics in crime fiction and thrillers -- From I, Claudius to private eyes : Rome and the detective in popular fiction / Lisa Maurice -- A Roman and a foreigner : Lindsey Davis's new Roman detective series / Anat Koplowitz-Breier -- "An open account from the past always needs to be settled" : Chimaira (2001), The ancient curse (2010) and receiving the past / Claudia Fratini -- Part 2. Rewriting the ancient world in a modern setting -- Going home : Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The warriors (1965) / Eran Almagor -- The eagle and the mockingjay : reality television as Roman gladiator culture / Dor Yaccobi -- "Atalanta just married" : a case study in Greek mythology-based fan fiction / Amanda Potter -- Part 3. Rewriting myths of classical literature -- The loves of Achilles : from epic to popular fiction / Anne Sinha -- "Home is behind, the world ahead" : reading Tolkien's The hobbit as a story of Xenia or Homeric hospitality / Hamish Williams -- Cupid and psyche : a love story (?) in comics and children's literature / Lily Glasner -- Part 4. Rewriting Jews and Christians in the ancient world -- Sadducee and pharisee in "The antagonists" by E.K. Gann / Haim Perlmutter -- Emotion and reception of the ancient world in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ (1880) / Emily Chow-Kambitsch -- Jewish women writing historical novels based on rabbinic sources / Tal Ilan -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466615203321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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