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Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000 /
This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published te...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duckworth,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus. ""Remaking the Classics"" also |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472538604 1472538609 9781472538611 1472538617 |