Contextualizing Classics
Ideology, Performance, Dialogue
Published on 17. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-8476-9733-5 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts. Others examine the relationships between classics and cultural studies, popular literature, film, art history, and other related disciplines. Others, again, look to the evolution of theoretical methods within the discipline of classics. Taken together, the essays offer a spectrum of new approaches in the classics and their place within the profession.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9733-5 (9780847697335)
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Thomas M. Falkner is professor of classical studies and dean of the faculty at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Nancy Felson is professor of classics at the University of Georgia in Athens. David Konstan is professor of classics and comparative literature at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Content
Part 1 Ideology
Chapter 2 Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State
Chapter 3 Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece
Chapter 4 Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae
Chapter 5 Body / Politics: Is There a History of Reading?
Part 6 Performance
Chapter 7 Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Chapter 8 Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral Theory
Chapter 9 Madness Visible: Tragic Ideology and Poetic Authority in Sophocles' Ajax
Part 10 Dialogue
Chapter 11 Sophoklean Dialogues
Chapter 12 The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides
Chapter 13 Platonic Mimesis
Part 14 Contextualizing Classics
Chapter 15 Gender Studies
Chapter 16 Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and Opportunities
Chapter 17 From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow Oilskins
Chapter 18 Mass Market Romans
Chapter 19 Arethusa and the Politics of Criticism
Chapter 2 Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State
Chapter 3 Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece
Chapter 4 Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae
Chapter 5 Body / Politics: Is There a History of Reading?
Part 6 Performance
Chapter 7 Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Chapter 8 Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral Theory
Chapter 9 Madness Visible: Tragic Ideology and Poetic Authority in Sophocles' Ajax
Part 10 Dialogue
Chapter 11 Sophoklean Dialogues
Chapter 12 The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides
Chapter 13 Platonic Mimesis
Part 14 Contextualizing Classics
Chapter 15 Gender Studies
Chapter 16 Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and Opportunities
Chapter 17 From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow Oilskins
Chapter 18 Mass Market Romans
Chapter 19 Arethusa and the Politics of Criticism