Classics in extremis : the edges of classical reception / edited by Edmund Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Edmund, 1982- editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical--Influence.

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization, Classical, in literature.

Civilization, Classical, in art.

Civilization, Classical, in mass media.

Physical Description:

xi, 256 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction / Edmund Richardson

Thinking with classical reception: critical distance, critical licence, critical amnesia? / Lorna Hardwick

Daphnis transformed: Aphra Behn's politics of translation / Amanda Klause

Local engagements with ancient Greek vases in Ottoman and revolutionary Greece, c.1800-1833 / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

The hand that shook the world: Daniel Dunglas Home's disembodied classics / Edmund Richardson

Picturing antiquity: photography, performance and Julia Margaret Cameron / Jennifer Wallace

High culture in low company? The reception of ancient "homosexuality" in the pornographic the sins of the cities of the plain / Jennifer Ingleheart

The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud / Rosa Andújar

Beyond the limits of art and war trauma: David Jones "In parenthesis" / Edith Hall

Classics down the mineshaft: a buried history / Henry Stead

Extreme classicisms: Jorge Luis Borges / Laura Jansen

The costly fabric of conservatism: classical references in contemporary public culture / Maarten de Pourcq.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350017252

1350017256

OCLC:

1039200864