Antipodean antiquities : classical reception down under /

Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Austra...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Marguerite, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019]
Colección:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Temas:
Classical literature > Appreciation > Australia.
Classical literature > Appreciation > New Zealand.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Classical literature > Appreciation.
Australia.
New Zealand.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE COLONIAL PAST
  • CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN WHITE AUSTRALASIA; CHAPTER 1 BLACK OUT: CLASSICIZING INDIGENEITY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; The Monograph of John Hunter (1793); 'A Native Wounded while asleep'; 'New Zealand War Canoe bidding defiance to the Ship'; Black Out; CHAPTER 2 AUSTRALIA AS UNDERWORLD: CONVICT CLASSICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; Introduction; Infernal geography; A 'jaunty Dantesquerie'; 'As great a tyrant as Nero ever was'; The afterlife
  • PART II THEATRE
  • THEN AND NOWCHAPTER 3 AGAMEMNON COMES TO THE ANTIPODES: THE ORIGINS OF STUDENT DRAMA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY; Live on stage: a new departure; The earliest classical play at the University of Sydney; The first Agamemnon; Staging the play; The performances; From Agamemnon to a dramatic society; CHAPTER 4 SALAMIS AND GALLIPOLI: THE CAMPAIGNS OF PHILLIP MANN; CHAPTER 5 WESLEY ENOCH'S BLACK MEDEA; Euripides' Medea6; Enoch and Euripides; The Landscape of Jukurrpa; CHAPTER 6 WHAT WOMEN CRITICS KNOW THAT MEN DON'T; A theatrical frame; The comments; Afterlife
  • PART III POETRY AND CLASSICAL ECHOES IN NEW ZEALANDCHAPTER 7 JAMES K. BAXTER AND THE GORGON MOON; CHAPTER 8 CLODIA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS; PART IV FICTIONALIZING ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUITIES; CHAPTER 9 PARILIA POSCOR
  • DAVID MALOUF REMEMBERS THE PARILIA (FASTI 4.721FF.); Exiles and aetiologies: The Parilia in Augustan poetry; The repetition of ritual: Frazer and the Fasti; The Parilia in Tomis; CHAPTER 10 IMAGINATIVE DISPLACEMENT: CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN THE YOUNG ADULT FICTION OF MARGARET MAHY; Suburban Classical: The Changeover; Harry and the Minotaur: The Tricksters
  • 'Partly mythological': The Catalogue of the UniverseMemory and the modern city; Holding the world together; CHAPTER 11 CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN BERNARD BECKETT'S GENESIS, AUGUST AND LULLABY; Genesis; August; Lullaby; New Zealand settings and current topics; Philosophical questions; CHAPTER 12 DISPLACED PERSONS AND DISPLACED NARRATIVES IN S.D. GENTILL'S HERO TRILOGY; PART V AUSTRALASIA, GREECE AND ROME
  • PAPER AND CANVAS; CHAPTER 13 PAINTING ANZACS IN AN EPIC LANDSCAPE: GREEK MYTH, THE TROJAN WAR AND SIDNEY NOLAN'S GALLIPOLI SERIES; The Trojan War, 1915; 'The Trojan War, 1915'
  • Arthur Adams3
  • Painting an epic landscape'Gallipoli'; Ancient Greek art and mutilated Anzacs; CHAPTER 14 OF HEROES AND HUMANS: MARIAN MAGUIRE'S COLONIZATION OF HERAKLES' MYTHICAL WORLD; Scholarship and exhibitions; Narrative and time in the series; The lithographs; Conclusion; PART VI ANTIQUITY ON THE AUSTRALASIAN SCREEN; CHAPTER 15 TEMPORAL TURBULENCE: RECEPTION STUDIES(') NOW; Turbulent temporality; Xena: Warrior Princess; Xena 's turbulent temporalities; CHAPTER 16 CLASSICAL EPIC IN PETER JACKSON'S MIDDLE-EARTH TRILOGIES; Introduction; Tolkien, Jackson and epic heroism; The ending of epic

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