Martindale / Thomas Classics and the Uses of Reception

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77544-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Classical Receptions

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints onthe value and role of reception theory within the modern disciplineof classics.
* A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theoryplays, or could play, within the modern discipline ofclassics.
* Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.
* Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars toestablished figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.
* Draws on material from many different fields, from translationstudies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance.
* Sets the agenda for classics in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martindale, Charles

Thomas, Richard F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Thinking Through Reception (CharlesMartindale).
1. Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory (William W.Batstone).
Part I. Reception in Theory.
2. Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies (RalphHexter).
3. Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas(Timothy Saunders).
4. Text, Theory, and Reception (Kenneth Haynes).
5. Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics ofReception (Genevieve Liveley).
6. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader(Craig Kallendorf).
7. Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation(Vanda Zajko).
8. Passing on the Panpipe: Genre and Reception (MathildeSkoie).
9. True Histories: Lucien, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics ofReception (Tim Whitmarsh).
10. The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative(Miriam Leonard).
11. The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality ofAppropriation (Katie Fleming).
Part II. Studies in Reception.
12. The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and theMeaning of the Classics (Alexandra Lianeri).
13. Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the NineteenthCentury (Richard F. Thomas).
14. Foucault's Antiquity (James I. Porter).
15. Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of ClassicalReception Among Non-Elite Groups (Siobhán McElduff).
16. Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in DerekWalcott's Omeros (Helen Kaufmann).
17. Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora inPerformance (Lorna Hardwick).
18. Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia(Pantelis Michelakis).
19. Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo(Elizabeth Prettejohn).
20. The Touch of Sappho (Simon Goldhill).
21. (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach'sDas Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint (JohnHenderson).
22. Afterword: The Uses of "Reception" (Duncan F. Kennedy).
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Martindale is Professor of Latin at theUniversity of Bristol He has written extensively on the receptionof classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical Redeemingthe Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception(1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions ofVirgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as Shakespeare and theClassics (2004). His most recent book is Latin Poetry andthe Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (2005).
Richard F. Thomas is Professor of Greek and Latin atHarvard University. His interests are generally focused onHellenistic Greek and Roman literature, on intertextuality, and onthe reception of classical literature in all periods. Recent booksinclude Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies inIntertextuality (1999) and Virgil and the AugustanReception (2001). He is currently working on a commentary toHorace, Odes 4 and a coedited volume on the performanceartistry of Bob Dylan.