This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on
the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline
of classics.
* A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory
plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of
classics.
* Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.
* Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to
established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.
* Draws on material from many different fields, from translation
studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance.
* Sets the agenda for classics in the future.
Spis treści
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Thinking Through Reception 1
Charles Martindale
1 Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory 14
William W. Batstone
Part I Reception in Theory 21
2 Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies 23
Ralph Hexter
3 Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas 32
Timothy Saunders Copyrighted Material
4 Text, Theory, and Reception 44
Kenneth Haynes
5 Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception 55
Genevieve Liveley
6 Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 67
Craig Kallendorf
7 Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation 80
Vanda Zajko
8 Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception 92
Mathilde Skoie
9 True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception 104
Tim Whitmarsh
10 The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative 116
Miriam Leonard
11 The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation 127
Katie Fleming
Part II Studies in Reception 139
12 The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics 141
Alexandra Lianeri
13 Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century 153
Richard F. Thomas
14 Foucault’s Antiquity 168
James I. Porter
15 Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups 180
Siobhán Mc Elduff
16 Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott’s Omeros 192
Helen Kaufmann
17 Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance 204
Lorna Hardwick
18 Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia 216
Pantelis Michelakis
19 Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo 227
Elizabeth Prettejohn
20 The Touch of Sappho 250
Simon Goldhill
21 (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach’s Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint 274
John Henderson
22 Afterword: The Uses of 'Reception’ 288
Duncan F. Kennedy
Bibliography 294
Index 325
O autorze
Charles Martindale is Professor of Latin at the
University of Bristol He has written extensively on the reception
of classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical Redeeming
the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception
(1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions of
Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as Shakespeare and the
Classics (2004). His most recent book is Latin Poetry and
the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (2005).
Richard F. Thomas is Professor of Greek and Latin at
Harvard University. His interests are generally focused on
Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature, on intertextuality, and on
the reception of classical literature in all periods. Recent books
include Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in
Intertextuality (1999) and Virgil and the Augustan
Reception (2001). He is currently working on a commentary to
Horace, Odes 4 and a coedited volume on the performance
artistry of Bob Dylan.
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