Classical traditions in modern fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Autore | Rogers Brett M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
ISBN |
0-19-066107-0
0-19-061008-5 0-19-061007-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156292703321 |
Rogers Brett M. | ||
New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Classical Presences |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Science fiction television programs - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature - Influence Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-998841-2
0-19-998843-9 0-19-998842-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Series; Classical Traditions in Science Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country; Part I SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn; 1 The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link; 2 Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; 3 Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; 4 Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links Between the True History and The First Men in the Moon; Part II SF "Classics"; 5 A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius
6 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Great Year, and the Ages of Man7 Time and Self-Referentiality in the Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune; 8 Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner; Part III Classics in Space; 9 Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series; 10 Hybrids and Homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien Resurrection; 11 Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica; Part IV Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?; 12 Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons's Ilium 13 Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy14 Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the End of Antiquity; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463617803321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Classical Presences |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Science fiction television programs - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature - Influence Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
ISBN |
0-19-998841-2
0-19-998843-9 0-19-998842-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Series; Classical Traditions in Science Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country; Part I SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn; 1 The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link; 2 Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; 3 Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; 4 Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links Between the True History and The First Men in the Moon; Part II SF "Classics"; 5 A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius
6 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Great Year, and the Ages of Man7 Time and Self-Referentiality in the Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune; 8 Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner; Part III Classics in Space; 9 Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series; 10 Hybrids and Homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien Resurrection; 11 Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica; Part IV Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?; 12 Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons's Ilium 13 Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy14 Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the End of Antiquity; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788034203321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Classical Presences |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Science fiction television programs - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature - Influence Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
ISBN |
0-19-998841-2
0-19-998843-9 0-19-998842-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Series; Classical Traditions in Science Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country; Part I SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn; 1 The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link; 2 Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; 3 Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; 4 Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links Between the True History and The First Men in the Moon; Part II SF "Classics"; 5 A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius
6 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Great Year, and the Ages of Man7 Time and Self-Referentiality in the Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune; 8 Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner; Part III Classics in Space; 9 Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series; 10 Hybrids and Homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien Resurrection; 11 Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica; Part IV Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?; 12 Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons's Ilium 13 Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy14 Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the End of Antiquity; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808237403321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Frankenstein and its classics : the modern Prometheus from antiquity to science fiction / / edited by Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Brett M. Rogers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Collana | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - Classical influences
Frankenstein films |
ISBN | 1-350-05490-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796955003321 |
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Frankenstein and its classics : the modern Prometheus from antiquity to science fiction / / edited by Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Brett M. Rogers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Collana | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - Classical influences
Frankenstein films |
ISBN | 1-350-05490-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807991103321 |
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Once and future antiquities in science fiction and fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Collana | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - Classical influences
Classical literature - Influence |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-350-06897-7
1-350-06895-0 1-350-06896-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface ; Introduction: Displacing Antiquity in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brett M -- Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part I: Displacing Points of Origin. 1 -- More 'T, ' Vicar? Revisiting Models and Methodologies for Classical Receptions in Science Fiction (Tony Keen) ; 2 -- Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Jesse Weiner) ; 3 -- Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer's Iliad (Claire Kenward) ; 4 -- Monuments and Tradition in Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God (Laura Zientek) ; Part II: Displaced in Space. 5 -- Lyra's Odyssey in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ortwin Knorr) ; 6 -- Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Suzanne Lye) ; 7. 'The nearest technically impossible thing': Classical Antiquity in the Novels of Helen Oyeyemi (Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part III: Displaced in Time. 8 -- Dynamic Tensions: The Figure(s) of Atlas in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stephen B -- Moses and Brett M -- Rogers) ; 9 -- Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones's The Time of the Ghost (Frances Foster) ; 10 -- Finding Cassandra in Science Fiction: The Seer of Agamemnon and the Time-Traveling Protector of Continuum (Jennifer Ranck) ; Part IV: Displacing Genre. 11 -- Classical Reception and the Half-Elf Cleric (C -- W -- Marshall) ; 12 -- The Gods Problem in Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist (Vincent Tomasso) ; 13 -- The Divine Emperor in Virgil's Aeneid and the Warhammer 40K Universe (Alexander McAuley) ;Part V: Epilogue: Finding a Place in Displacement. 14 -- Just Your Averange Tuesday-Morning Minotaur (Catherynne M -- Valente). |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511753403321 |
London England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Once and future antiquities in science fiction and fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Collana | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - Classical influences
Classical literature - Influence |
ISBN |
1-350-06897-7
1-350-06895-0 1-350-06896-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface ; Introduction: Displacing Antiquity in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brett M -- Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part I: Displacing Points of Origin. 1 -- More 'T, ' Vicar? Revisiting Models and Methodologies for Classical Receptions in Science Fiction (Tony Keen) ; 2 -- Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Jesse Weiner) ; 3 -- Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer's Iliad (Claire Kenward) ; 4 -- Monuments and Tradition in Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God (Laura Zientek) ; Part II: Displaced in Space. 5 -- Lyra's Odyssey in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ortwin Knorr) ; 6 -- Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Suzanne Lye) ; 7. 'The nearest technically impossible thing': Classical Antiquity in the Novels of Helen Oyeyemi (Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part III: Displaced in Time. 8 -- Dynamic Tensions: The Figure(s) of Atlas in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stephen B -- Moses and Brett M -- Rogers) ; 9 -- Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones's The Time of the Ghost (Frances Foster) ; 10 -- Finding Cassandra in Science Fiction: The Seer of Agamemnon and the Time-Traveling Protector of Continuum (Jennifer Ranck) ; Part IV: Displacing Genre. 11 -- Classical Reception and the Half-Elf Cleric (C -- W -- Marshall) ; 12 -- The Gods Problem in Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist (Vincent Tomasso) ; 13 -- The Divine Emperor in Virgil's Aeneid and the Warhammer 40K Universe (Alexander McAuley) ;Part V: Epilogue: Finding a Place in Displacement. 14 -- Just Your Averange Tuesday-Morning Minotaur (Catherynne M -- Valente). |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793356403321 |
London England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Once and future antiquities in science fiction and fantasy / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Collana | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - Classical influences
Classical literature - Influence |
ISBN |
1-350-06897-7
1-350-06895-0 1-350-06896-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface ; Introduction: Displacing Antiquity in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brett M -- Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part I: Displacing Points of Origin. 1 -- More 'T, ' Vicar? Revisiting Models and Methodologies for Classical Receptions in Science Fiction (Tony Keen) ; 2 -- Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Jesse Weiner) ; 3 -- Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer's Iliad (Claire Kenward) ; 4 -- Monuments and Tradition in Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God (Laura Zientek) ; Part II: Displaced in Space. 5 -- Lyra's Odyssey in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ortwin Knorr) ; 6 -- Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Suzanne Lye) ; 7. 'The nearest technically impossible thing': Classical Antiquity in the Novels of Helen Oyeyemi (Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part III: Displaced in Time. 8 -- Dynamic Tensions: The Figure(s) of Atlas in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stephen B -- Moses and Brett M -- Rogers) ; 9 -- Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones's The Time of the Ghost (Frances Foster) ; 10 -- Finding Cassandra in Science Fiction: The Seer of Agamemnon and the Time-Traveling Protector of Continuum (Jennifer Ranck) ; Part IV: Displacing Genre. 11 -- Classical Reception and the Half-Elf Cleric (C -- W -- Marshall) ; 12 -- The Gods Problem in Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist (Vincent Tomasso) ; 13 -- The Divine Emperor in Virgil's Aeneid and the Warhammer 40K Universe (Alexander McAuley) ;Part V: Epilogue: Finding a Place in Displacement. 14 -- Just Your Averange Tuesday-Morning Minotaur (Catherynne M -- Valente). |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827893003321 |
London England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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