Antipodean antiquities : classical reception down under / edited by Marguerite Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Marguerite, 1965- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Australia.

New Zealand.

Classical literature--Appreciation--Australia.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--Appreciation--New Zealand.

Physical Description:

xi, 293 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Contents:

Part I The Colonial Past - Classical Influences in White Australasia

1 Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand p. 13 / Marguerite Johnson

2 Australia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth Century p. 29 / Rachael White

Part II Theatre - Then and Now

3 Agamemnon Conies to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney p. 43 / Laura Ginters

4 Salamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann p. 61 / John Davidson

5 Wesley Enoch's Black Medea p. 73 / Michael Ewans and Marguerite Johnson

6 What Women Critics Know That Men Don't p. 87 / Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Part III Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand

7 James K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon p. 105 / Geoffrey Miles

8 Clodia Through the Looking Glass p. 117 / Anna Jackson

Part IV Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities

9 Parilia Poscor - David Malouf Re members the Parilia (Fasti 4.721ff.) p. 131 / Nicolas Liney

10 Imaginative Displacement: Classical Reception in the Young Adult Fiction of Margaret Mahy p. 143 / Elizabeth Hale

11 Classical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August and Lullaby p. 155 / Babette Pütz

12 Displaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero Trilogy p. 167 / Anne Rogerson

Part V Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas

13 Painting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan's Gallipoli Series p. 179 / Sarah Midford

14 Of Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical World p. 195 / Melinda Johnston and Thomas Köntges

Part VI Antiquity on the Australasian Screen

15 Temporal Turbulence: Reception Studies(') Now p. 211 / Ika Willis

16 Classical Epic in Peter Jackson's Middle-earth Trilogies p. 223 / Hannah Parry

17 Shifting Paradigms in Ben Ferris' Penelope p. 233 / Leanne Glass.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781350021235

1350021237

OCLC:

1055568675