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Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2018.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION DISPLACING ANTIQUITIES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY; Outline of volume; Notes; PART I DISPLACING POINTS OF ORIGIN; CHAPTER 1 MORE 'T' VICAR? REVISITING MODELS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION; Revisiting the original post; Theoretical engagements; Methodological challenges; Notes; CHAPTER 2 SAXA LOQUUNTUR? ARCHAEOLOGICAL FANTASIES IN WILHELM JENSEN'S GRADIVA; Introduction
- Gradiva and its readers: the archaeologist, the psychoanalyst, and the witchArchaeological fantasies; A place for fantasy?; Notes; CHAPTER 3 TIME TRAVEL AND SELF-REFLEXIVITY IN RECEPTIONS OF HOMER'S ILIAD; "Watch the scanners": Doctor Who and the televised Trojan War; "Meanwhile, on another dimensional plane at the self-same time": Marvel's Thor Annual #8: Thunder Over Troy; Travelling through time: classical reception as science fiction; Notes; CHAPTER 4 MONUMENTS AND TRADITION IN JACK MCDEVITT'S THE ENGINES OF GOD; Exo-archaeology and the monuments; The decipherment of Linear C
- 'Hercules' versus the Monument-MakersConclusion; Notes; PART II DISPLACED IN SPACE; CHAPTER 5 'LYRA'S ODYSSEY' IN PHILIP PULLMAN'S HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY; 'Lyra's Odyssey'; Echoes of the Telemachy; Homecoming and displacement; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 6 DISPLACING NOSTOS AND THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO IN HAYAO MIYAZAKI'S SPIRITED AWAY; Off the path and into Greek myth; Miyazaki's connection to Greek myth; Displacement in Spirited Away; Reading the Odyssey in Spirited Away; Complicated characters; Greek Underworld myths in Spirited Away; Chihiro and Orpheus; Conclusion; Notes
- CHAPTER 7 "THE NEAREST TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE THING": CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS IN HELEN OYEYEMIIntroduction; The Icarus Girl and other Icarian doubles; Houses of death or katabasis : The Opposite House and White is for Witching; Persephone in The Opposite House; White is for Witching and Eurydice's haunted-house tale; Conclusion: Mr. Fox and an Ovidian Oyeyemi?; Notes; PART III DISPLACED IN TIME; CHAPTER 8 DYNAMIC TENSIONS: THE FIGURE(S) OF ATLAS IN THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW; Introduction; Atlas in Greco-Roman antiquity; "Yours in perfect manhood": (Charles) Atlas in the twentieth century
- Body building/building bodies: FrankensteinAtlas(es) in the Rocky Horror Picture Show; Notes; CHAPTER 9 DRINKING BLOOD AND TALKING GHOSTS IN DIANA WYNNE JONES'S THE TIME OF THE GHOST; Introduction; Acquiring and preparing the blood; The blood and the dead; The living and the dead; Drinking the blood; Between life and death; Notes; CHAPTER 10 FINDING CASSANDRA IN SCIENCE FICTION: THE SEER OF AGAMEMNON AND THE TIME-TRAVELLING PROTECTOR OF CONTINUUM; Empowered: "What if she digs deeper?"; Knowledge and identity: "That is need to know."