MARTINDALE, Charles and Richard. F. Thomas, Classics and the Uses of Reception, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 352 p. (Series : Classical Reception)
ISBN : 1405131454
This landmark collection looks at the role reception plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics, and presents a wide variety of viewpoints on its value, use and theoretical underpinnings.Contributions by scholars from Europe, the UK, and the USA illustrate a range of different approaches and methodological commitments, and employ material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance. Each chapter constitutes a theoretical exploration or a demonstration of the productive use of reception for the discipline of classics, or both. The collection is framed by a provocative position statement from William Batstone and a response by Duncan Kennedy.The volume as a whole offers readers an enriched theoretical understanding of reception and its uses, and makes the case for reception constituting a vital part of classics in the future.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS :
1. Introduction: Thinking Through Reception: Charles Martindale (University of Bristol)
2. Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory: William Batstone (The Ohio State University)
Part I: Reception in Theory
3. Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies: Ralph Hexter (Hampshire College in Amhurst, Massachusetts)
4. Discipline and Receive, or Making an Example Out of Marsyas: Timothy Saunders (University of Bristol)
5. Text, Theory, and Reception: Kenneth Haynes (University of Brown)
6. Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception: Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol)
7. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader: Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University)
8. Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation: Vanda Zajko (University of Bristol)
9. Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception: Mathilde Skoie (University of Bergen)
10. True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception: Tim Whitmarsh (University of Exeter)
11. The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative: Miriam Leonard (University of Bristol)
12. The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation: Katie Fleming (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Part II: Studies in Reception: Translation, Subjectivity, Postcolonialism, Performance, Art and Visual Culture
13. The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity and the Meaning of the Classics: Alexandra Lianeri (Darwin College, Cambridge)
14. Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the 19th Century: Richard Thomas (Harvard University)
15. Foucault's Antiquity: James I. Porter (University of Michigan)
16. Fractured Understanding: Towards a History of Classical Reception Among Non-Elite Groups: Siobhan McElduff (Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles)
17. Decolonizing the Post-Colonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros: Helen Kaufmann (University of Fribourg (CH))
18. Remodelling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance: Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
19. Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia: Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol)
20. Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo: Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
21. The Touch of Sappho: Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
22. [At] the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon, or Philosophy in Paint: John Henderson (University of Cambridge)
23. Afterword: 'The Uses of "Reception"'. Duncan F. Kennedy (University of Bristol)
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