The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40093-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oliver Murdoch, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions

2 The Classical World

3 Ovid (often) Moralised: the Middle Ages

4 Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After

5 Ballads, Folk and Literary

6 Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric

7 The Challenge of Drama

8 The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After

9 Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques

10 Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays

11 Modern Experiments

12 Some Shallow Story of Deep Love?

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Murdoch, PhD, LittD (Cambridge, 1968, 1991), FRHist.S is Emeritus Professor of German at Stirling University, Scotland. He has published many monographs, translations and articles on medieval literature, comparative literature, Old Testament apocrypha, and the literature of the world wars.