L. Hardwick, C. Stray (éd.), A Companion to Classical Receptions

Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray (éd.), A Companion to Classical Receptions, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, collection "Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World", 2008, xviii-538p. EAN : 9781405151672

Recension par John Henderson (King's College, Cambridge) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.08.38

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.

* Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics

* Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices

* Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion

* Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics

Les auteurs:

Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project at the Open University. Her publications on Greek cultural history and its reception in modern theatre and literature include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000), New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003) and (co-edited with Carol Gillespie) Classics in Post-colonial Worlds (2007).

Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Classics Transformed: SchoolsUniversities, and Society in England 1830-1960 (1998), and editor of The Owl of Minerva (2005), Classical Books (2007) and Remaking the Classics (2007).

Table des matières:

Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray. 'Introduction: Making Connections': 1-9

Ch. 1. Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold, 'Reception and Tradition': 13-25
Ch. 2. Barbara Graziosi, 'The Ancient Reception of Homer': 26-37
Ch. 3. Chris Emlyn-Jones, 'Poets on Socrates' Stage: Plato's Reception of Dramatic Art': 38-49
Ch. 4. Thomas Harrison, '"Respectable in its ruins": Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern': 50-61
Ch. 5. Ruth Webb, 'Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy': 62-71
Ch. 6. Seth L. Schein, '"Our Debt to Greece and Rome": Canons, Class and Ideology': 75-85
Ch. 7. David W. Bebbington, 'Gladstone on the Classics': 86-97
Ch. 8. Emily Greenwood, 'Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s': 98-112
Ch. 9. Stephen Harrison, 'Virgilian Contexts': 113-26
Ch. 10. David Hopkins, 'Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope's Iliad ': 129-40
Ch. 11. Ahmed Etman, 'Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics': 141-52
Ch. 12. J. Michael Walton, '"Enough Give in It": Translating the Classical Play': 153-67
Ch. 13. James Robson, 'Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour': 168-82
Ch. 14. Cashman Kerr Prince, '"Making It New": André Gide's Rewriting of Myth': 185-94
Ch. 15. Vanda Zajko, '"What Difference Was Made?": Feminist Models of Reception': 195-206
Ch. 16. Miriam Leonard, 'History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed': 207-18
Ch. 17. Pantelis Michelakis, 'Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization': 219-28
Ch. 18. Michael Ewans, 'Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: "Apolline" and "Dionysiac" Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera': 231-26
Ch. 19. Fiona Macintosh, 'Performance Histories': 247-58
Ch. 20. Angeliki Varakis, '"Body and Mask" in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage': 259-73
Ch. 21. Freddy Decreus, 'The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of the Classical Tragedy': 274-86
Ch. 22. Nurit Yaari, 'Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians': 287-300
Ch. 23. Joanna Paul, 'Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies': 303-14
Ch. 24. Hanna M. Roisman, 'The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods': 315-26
Ch. 25. Marianne McDonald, 'A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics': 327-41
Ch. 26. Catharine Edwards, 'Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale': 345-59
Ch. 27. Gonda van Steen, '"You unleash the tempest of tragedy": The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus' Oresteia': 360-72
Ch. 28. Betine van Zyl Smit, 'Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first centuries': 373-85
Ch. 29. Edith Hall, 'Putting the Class into Classical Reception': 386-97
Ch. 30. Gregson Davis, 'Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden': 401-14
Ch. 31. Sarah Annes Brown, '"Plato's Stepchildren": SF and the Classics': 415-27
Ch. 32. Rosalind Hursthouse, 'Aristotle's Ethics, Old and New': 428-39
Ch. 33. Bryan E. Burns, 'Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition': 440-51
Ch. 34. Elizabeth Vandiver, 'Homer in British World War One Poetry': 452-65
Ch. 35. James I. Porter, 'Reception Studies: Future Prospects': 469-81

With Contents, List of (20) Figures; Bibliography, Index.