Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989 / edited by Justine McConnell and Edith Hall |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.3/93829213 |
Collana | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
Soggetto topico |
Literature - 20th century - Classical influences
Literature - 21st century - Classical influences Mythology, Classical, in literature |
ISBN |
1-4725-7939-9
1-4742-5627-9 1-4725-7940-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Introduction / Justine McConnell -- From anthropophagy to allegory and back: a study of classical myth and the Brazilian novel / Patrice Rankine -- Ibrahim al-Koni's Lost oasis as Atlantis and his demon as Typhon / William M. Hutchins -- Greek myth and mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera's The matriarch (1986) and The dream swimmer / Simon Perris -- War, religion and tragedy: the revolt of the muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videiras de Cristal / Sofia Frade -- Translating myths, translating fictions / Lorna Hardwick -- Echoes of ancient Greek myths in Murakami Haruki's novels and in other works of contemporary Japanese literature / Giorgio Amitrano -- "It's all in the game": Greek myth and the wire / Adam Ganz -- Writing a new Irish odyssey: Theresa Kishkan's A man in a distant field / Fiona Macintosh -- The minotaur on the Russian internet: Viktor Pelevin's Helmet of horror / Anna Ljunggren -- Diagnosis: overdose status: critical odysseys in Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr / Sebastian Matzner -- Narcissus and the Furies: myth and docufiction in Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones / Edith Hall -- Philhellenic imperialism and the invention of the classical past: twenty-first century re-imaginings of Odysseus in the Greek war for independence / Efrossini Spentzou -- The "Poem of force" in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe Hooper, The tall man / Margaret Reynolds -- Young female heroes from Sophocles to the twenty-first century / Helen Eastman -- Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu's How to read the air, Ralph Ellison, and Homer / Justine McConnell
Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction, Justine McConnell -- 1 From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study of -- Classical Myth and the Brazilian Novel, Patrice Rankine -- 2 Ibrahim Al-Koni's Lost Oasis as Atlantis and His Demon as -- Typhon, William M. Hutchins -- 3 Greek Myth and Mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch -- and The Dream Swimmer, Simon Perris -- 4 War, Religion and Tragedy: The Revolt of the Muckers in -- Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videiras de Cristal, -- Sofia Frade -- 5 Translating Myths, Translating Fictions, Lorna Hardwick -- 6 Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki's -- novels and in Other Works of Contemporary Japanese -- Literature, Giorgio Amitrano -- 7 'It's All in the Game': Greek Myth and The Wire, Adam Ganz -- 8 Writing a New Irish Odyssey: Theresa Kishkan's A Man in -- a Distant Field, Fiona Macintosh -- 9 The Minotaur on the Russian Internet: Viktor Pelevin's -- Helmet of Horror, Anna Ljunggren -- 10 Diagnosis: Overdose - Status: Critical. Odysseys in -- Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr, Sebastian Matzner -- 11 Narcissus and the Furies: Myth and Docufiction in -- Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, Edith Hall -- 12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the Classical -- Past: Twenty-first Century Re-imaginings -- of Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence, Efrossini Spentzou -- 13 The 'Poem of Force' in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe -- Hooper, The Tall Man, Margaret Reynolds -- 14 Young Female Heroes from Sophocles to the Twenty-First -- Century, Helen Eastman -- 15 Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read -- the Air, Justine McConnell |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910311931503321 |
London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ancient slavery and abolition [[electronic resource] ] : from Hobbes to Hollywood / / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.362 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HallEdith <1959->
AlstonRichard <1965-> McConnellJustine |
Collana | Classical presences |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery - History
Antislavery movements - History Classical literature Abolitionists - History |
ISBN |
1-283-35238-9
0-19-161797-0 9786613352385 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""1. Introduction: �AValuable Lesson�""; ""2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom""; ""3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti-Slavery Debates of the 1790s""; ""4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795�1834)""; ""5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry""; ""6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley""
""7. Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer�s The Last Days of Pompeii""""8. The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism""; ""9. Recollecting Aristotle: Pro-Slavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I""; ""10. The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA""; ""11. Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition""; ""12. Universal Slave Revolts: C. L. R. James�s Use of Classical Literature in The Black Jacobins"" ""13. Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in Sommersby""""Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past""; ""Consolidated 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""; ""X""; ""Z"" |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996207191803316 |
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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