UID:
almafu_9961652666702883
Format:
1 online resource (XIV, 419 p.)
ISBN:
9783110773729
Series Statement:
Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception , 9
Content:
In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover new ways to draw on our discipline and the material it studies to engage in meaningful ways with these new academic and societal challenges. The chapters included in the collection interrogate the very processes of reception and continue the work of destabilising the concept of a pure source text or point of origin. Our aim is to break through the boundaries that still divide our ancient texts and material culture from their reception, and interpretive communities. Our contributors engage with these questions theoretically and/or through the close examination of cultural artefacts. They problematise the concept of a Western, elitist canon and actively push the geographical boundaries of reception as both a local and a global phenomenon. Individually and cumulatively, they actively engage with the question of how to marshal the classical past in our efforts to respond to the challenges of our mutable contemporary world.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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List of Figures --
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Introduction: Classical Reception in the Early 2020s, Critical Times and Where to Next? --
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Part I: Concepts, Methods, and Intersections in Classical Reception --
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Section 1: Re-Thinking Classical Reception --
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The Master’s Tools?: Towards a Politics of Reception --
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Classics on the Surface: Classical Reception as an Emergent Process --
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Masked Celluloid Classics? Shadows of Clytemnestra in Film Noir --
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Section 2: Working with Archives --
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The “Advent of the New Rule”: An Oresteia (1947) in Prague and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia --
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Karolos Koun’s Art Theatre, the Greek Dictatorship, and the Ford Foundation: From Handout to Handshake --
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Narcissus, Adonis, and Medusa: Troubled Beauty in Classical Receptions of Film Stardom --
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Section 3: Cultural Intersections --
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Mocking the Hollywood Epic Canon: Parodies of the Classical World from Latin American Cinema’s Studio Era --
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Suspended Temporalities and Classical Reception: Cassandra in Anne Carson’s Agamemnon --
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Manga and the Power of the Classical Object: The Merging of Eastern and Western Traditions --
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Part II: Classical Receptions in Response to Societal Challenges --
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Section 4: Forming and Re-Negotiating Identities --
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Cripping Venus: Intersections of Classics and Disability Studies in Contemporary Receptions of the Venus de Milo --
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Social Justice-Engaged Reception Pedagogy at Wake Forest University --
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Classics on the Italian Stage: Old Habits and ‘New Deals’ --
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Section 5: Greek Tragedy in a Time of Pandemic --
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Tragedy as an Open Network: Antigone in Ferguson (2016–) and The Nurse Antigone (2022–2023) --
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“Where’s the Body?”: Performing Iphigenia at Aulis in New Zealand during the Pandemic (2020) --
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Section 6: Engaging with Technology and the Wider Public --
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Escaping Hades: Playing with Classical Reception --
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Classical Reception Meets Pedagogy: The Creation and Uses of the Panoply Vase Animation Project's Our Mythical Childhood and Locus Ludi Animations --
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List of Contributors --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110773835
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110773385
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110773729
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110773729
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110773729
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