Classical traditions in modern fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Rogers Brett M.
|
| Titolo: |
Classical traditions in modern fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens
|
| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 809/.915 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fantasy fiction - Classical influences |
| Fantasy fiction - History and criticism | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | RogersBrett M. |
| StevensBenjamin Eldon | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Classical traditions in modern fantasy |
| ISBN: | 0-19-066107-0 |
| 0-19-061008-5 | |
| 0-19-061007-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910156292703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |