Afro-Greeks [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century / / Emily Greenwood |
Autore | Greenwood Emily |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.99729 |
Collana | Classical presences |
Soggetto topico |
Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism
Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences Mythology, Greek, in literature |
ISBN |
1-283-30712-X
9786613307125 0-19-157347-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Goodbye to Hellas""; ""Overview of Chapters""; ""1 An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean""; ""Patrick Leigh Fermor�s The Traveller�s Tree""; ""Towards a New World Odyssey""; ""Foreign Lines of Verse: Walcott�s Dialogue with Modern Greece""; ""2 Classics as School of Empire""; ""Classics and the Educational Elite""; ""Contesting the Curriculum""; ""Afro-Romans and Imperial Redistribution""; ""C. L. R. James: Finding one�s Own Way in Classics""; ""Conclusion""
""3 Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature""""Translating Latin Badly""; ""Latin and Sweet Talk in Austin Clarke�s The Polished Hoe (2002)""; ""The Postcolonial Virgil in V. S. Naipaul""; ""Derek Walcott: Translating Empire""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy""; ""Athens in Trinidad I: C. L. R. James""; ""Athens in Trinidad II: Eric Williams""; ""Conclusion""; ""5 Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon""; ""The Unstable Canon: A Tale of Two Helens"" ""Classics of National Literature?""""Postcolonial Classics: Writing from Rome in Brathwaite�s X/Self""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996215636203316 |
Greenwood Emily | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Classics in post-colonial worlds [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (439 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9171241 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HardwickLorna
GillespieCarol |
Collana | Classical presences |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - Classical influences
Commonwealth literature (English) - Greek influences African drama (English) - Greek influences Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Classicism in literature Comparative literature - Modern and classical Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-959132-6
1-281-15500-4 9786611155001 0-19-153784-5 1-4356-1014-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: CASE STUDIES; PART II: ENCOUNTER AND NEW TRADITIONS; PART III: CHALLENGING THEORY: FRAMING FURTHER QUESTIONS; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451295903321 |
Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Classics in post-colonial worlds [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (439 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/9171241 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HardwickLorna
GillespieCarol |
Collana | Classical presences |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - Classical influences
Commonwealth literature (English) - Greek influences African drama (English) - Greek influences Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Classicism in literature Comparative literature - Modern and classical Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-959132-6
1-281-15500-4 9786611155001 0-19-153784-5 1-4356-1014-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: CASE STUDIES; PART II: ENCOUNTER AND NEW TRADITIONS; PART III: CHALLENGING THEORY: FRAMING FURTHER QUESTIONS; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996203966603316 |
Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Classics in post-colonial worlds [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 422 p |
Disciplina | 820.9/9171241 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HardwickLorna
GillespieCarol |
Collana | Classical presences |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - Classical influences
Commonwealth literature (English) - Greek influences African drama (English) - Greek influences Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Classicism in literature Comparative literature - Modern and classical Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN |
0191537845
9780191537844 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Classics in postcolonial worlds |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795716103321 |
Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Classics in post-colonial worlds [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 422 p |
Disciplina | 820.9/9171241 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HardwickLorna
GillespieCarol |
Collana | Classical presences |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - Classical influences
Commonwealth literature (English) - Greek influences African drama (English) - Greek influences Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries Classicism in literature Comparative literature - Modern and classical Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN |
0191537845
9780191537844 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: CASE STUDIES -- 1. Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu -- 2. Antigone's Boat: the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan -- 3. Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original -- 4. Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices -- 5. The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame -- 6. Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise -- 7. Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences? -- PART II: ENCOUNTER AND NEW TRADITIONS -- 8. Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: the Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage -- 9. Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic -- 10. A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology -- 11. Arriving Backwards: the Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean -- 12. 'If You are a Woman': Theatrical Womanizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island -- 13. Finding a Post-Colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes -- PART III: CHALLENGING THEORY: FRAMING FURTHER QUESTIONS -- 14. 'The Same Kind of Smile?' About the 'Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition -- 15. From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: a Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy -- 16. Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations -- 17. Shades of Multi-Lingualism and Multi-Vocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts -- 18. The Empire Never Ended -- 19. Another Architecture -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Altri titoli varianti | Classics in postcolonial worlds |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824779103321 |
Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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