Deep classics : rethinking classical reception / edited by Shane Butler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Shane, 1970- editor.

Series:

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2016.

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2016

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 347 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles -- and has even provided a model for -- other kinds of human endeavor. This v. offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of Classics itself, through the ages. Its individual chapters draw fruitful connections between the reception of the classical and current concerns in philosophy of mind, cognitive theory, epistemology, media studies, sense studies, aesthetics, queer theory and eco-criticism. What does the study of the ancient past teach us about our encounters with our own more recent but still elusive memories? What do our always partial reconstructions of ancient sites tell us about the limits of our ability to know our own world, or to imagine our future? What does the reader of the lacunose and corrupted literatures of antiquity learn thereby about literature and language themselves? What does a shattered statue reveal about art, matter, sensation, experience, life? Does the way in which these vestiges of the past are encountered -- sitting in a library, standing in a gallery, moving through a ruin -- condition our responses to them and alter their significance? And finally, how has the contemplation of antiquity helped to shape seemingly unrelated disciplines, including not only other humanistic and scientific epistemologies but also non-scholarly modes and practices? In asking these and similar questions, Deep Classics makes a pointed intervention in the study of the classical tradition, now more widely known as 'reception studies'."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

On the origin of "deep classics" / Shane Butler

Homer's deep / Shane Butler

The sigh of philhellenism / Joshua Billings

Feeling on the surface: touch and emotion in Fuseli and Homer / Alex Purves

Perceiving (in) depth: landscape, sculpture, ruin / Helen Slaney

Etymological "alterity": depths and heights / Joshua Katz

Shut your eyes and see / Adam Lecznar

The loss of telos: Pasolini, Fugard, and the Oresteia / Sarah Nooter

Kings of the stone age, or how to read an ancient inscription / Stephanie Ann Frampton

Queer unhistoricism: scholars, metalepsis, and interventions of the unruly past / Sebastian Matzner

Affects and contexts: a deep history of erotic anger / Giulia Sissa

Ghostwritten classics / Edmund rRchardson

Relic, channel, ghost: centaurs in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur / Mark Payne

Circulation of spectres: ghosts and spells / Davide Susanetti

Cosmopoiesis in the field of the classical / Brooke Holmes

Borges and the disclosure of antiquity / Laura Jansen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781474260558

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Restricted for use by site license.