Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Brett M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound, USA.Benjamin Eldon Stevens is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Trinity University, USA.

Reading this new volume from Bloomsbury is to experience the breadth of classical reception in the contemporary world. Hints and allusions to Greek and Roman antiquity abound in texts as diverse as Hayao Miyazaki's animated Studio Ghibli classic Spirited Away and Games Workshop's table top strategy game Warhammer 40K. This volume takes an expansive approach to appreciating and analysing different styles and modes of reception … Readers considering reception studies will find an encouraging array of examples and ways into approaching the subject.

• PrefaceList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Displacing Antiquity in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound, USA; Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University, USA)Displacing Points of Origin1. More ‘T,’ Vicar? Revisiting Models and Methodologies for Classical Receptions in Science Fiction (Tony Keen, Open University, UK)2. Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen’s Gradiva (Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, USA)3. Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer’s Iliad (Claire Kenward, Oxford University, APGRD, UK)4. Monuments and Tradition in Jack McDevitt’s The Engines of God (Laura Zientek, University of Washington, USA)Displaced in Space5. Lyra’s Odyssey in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University, USA)6. Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Suzanne Lye, Dartmouth College, USA)7. “The nearest technically impossible thing”: Classical Antiquity in the Novels of Helen Oyeyemi (Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University, USA)Displaced in Time8. Dynamic Tensions: The Figure(s) of Atlas in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stephen B. Moses and Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound, USA)9. Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones’s The Time of the Ghost (Frances Foster, Cambridge University, UK)10. Finding Cassandra in Science Fiction: The Seer of Agamemnon and the Time-Traveling Protector of Continuum (Jennifer Ranck, Independent Scholar)Displacing Genre11. Classical Reception and the Half-Elf Cleric (C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia, Canada)12. The Gods Problem in Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist (Vincent Tomasso, Trinity College, USA)13. The Divine Emperor in Virgil’s Aeneid and the Warhammer 40K Universe (Alexander McAuley, University of British Columbia, Canada)Epilogue: Finding a Place in Displacement14. Just Your Average Tuesday-Morning Minotaur (Catherynne M. Valente)Works CitedIndex