Classics in Extremis
The Edges of Classical Reception
1st Edition
Published on 13. December 2018
272 pages
978-1-350-01727-6 (ISBN)
Description
Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from American public-school classrooms to contemporary right-wing politics. How does the reception of the ancient world change under impossible strain?
Its protagonists are 'marginal' figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the 'marginal' shapes the 'central' as much as vice versa - and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of 'centre' and 'margins' produce? How can 'marginal' receptions be recovered most effectively?
Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception.
Its protagonists are 'marginal' figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the 'marginal' shapes the 'central' as much as vice versa - and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of 'centre' and 'margins' produce? How can 'marginal' receptions be recovered most effectively?
Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
31 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-01727-6 (9781350017276)
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Person
Edmund Richardson is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University, UK. He has published Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity (2013), and was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers in 2016.
Content
1. Introduction - Edmund Richardson - Durham University, UK
2. Thinking with classical reception: critical distance, critical licence, critical amnesia? - Lorna Hardwick - Open University, UK
3. Daphnis transformed: Aphra Behn's politics of translation. - Amanda Klause - Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, USA
4. Local engagements with Ancient Greek vases in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece, c.1800-1833. - Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis - University of St Andrews, UK
5. The hand that shook the world: Daniel Dunglas Home's disembodied classics. - Edmund Richardson - Durham University, UK
6. Picturing Antiquity: photography, performance and Julia Margaret Cameron. - Jennifer Wallace - Cambridge University, UK
7. High culture in low company? The reception of ancient 'homosexuality' in the pornographic The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: The Recollections of a Mary-Ann. - Jennifer Ingleheart - Durham University, UK
8. The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud. - Rosa Andújar - King's College, London, UK
9. Beyond the limits of art and war trauma: David Jones 'In Parenthesis'. - Edith Hall - King's College, London, UK
10. Classics down the mineshaft: a buried history. - Henry Stead - Open University, UK
11. Extreme Classicisms: Jorge Luis Borges. - Laura Jansen - University of Bristol, UK
12. The costly fabric of conservatism: Classical references in contemporary public culture. - Maarten De Pourcq - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Bibliography
Index
2. Thinking with classical reception: critical distance, critical licence, critical amnesia? - Lorna Hardwick - Open University, UK
3. Daphnis transformed: Aphra Behn's politics of translation. - Amanda Klause - Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, USA
4. Local engagements with Ancient Greek vases in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece, c.1800-1833. - Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis - University of St Andrews, UK
5. The hand that shook the world: Daniel Dunglas Home's disembodied classics. - Edmund Richardson - Durham University, UK
6. Picturing Antiquity: photography, performance and Julia Margaret Cameron. - Jennifer Wallace - Cambridge University, UK
7. High culture in low company? The reception of ancient 'homosexuality' in the pornographic The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: The Recollections of a Mary-Ann. - Jennifer Ingleheart - Durham University, UK
8. The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud. - Rosa Andújar - King's College, London, UK
9. Beyond the limits of art and war trauma: David Jones 'In Parenthesis'. - Edith Hall - King's College, London, UK
10. Classics down the mineshaft: a buried history. - Henry Stead - Open University, UK
11. Extreme Classicisms: Jorge Luis Borges. - Laura Jansen - University of Bristol, UK
12. The costly fabric of conservatism: Classical references in contemporary public culture. - Maarten De Pourcq - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
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