ROBERT GRAVES & CLASSICS CLPR C

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-873805-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value.

This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson

Gibson, A. G. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Andrew Bennett: 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves' Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction

- 2: Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman: Claudius in the Library

- 3: Sheila Murnaghan: Homer's Daughter: Graves' Vera Historia

- 4: Shaun Tougher: Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius - Genesis, Gender, and Truth

- 5: Jon Coulston: Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World

- 6: Sonia Sabnis: The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior

- 7: Philip Burton: 'Essentially a moral problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Tradition

- 8: Sibylle Ihm: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths and Matriarchy

- 9: Vanda Zajko: Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths

- 10: Isobel Hurst: Freedom to Invent: Graves' Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity

- 11: John Burnside: Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves

- 12: Tom Palaima: Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance

- 13: Jonathan Perry: 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves' Augustus in Mussolini's Italy

- 14: A. G. G. Gibson: Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius

- 15: Mick Morris: Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media

- 16: Amanda Wrigley: The Anger of Achilles (1964): A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

A. G. G. Gibson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews.