Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns.Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium. The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand’s foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-02
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472579386

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Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King’s College London, and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford, UK. She has published more than twenty books on ancient Greek culture and its reception including The Return of Ulysses (2008), Greek Tragedy(2010), Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (2013) and Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2015). Justine McConnell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (2013), and co-editor of Ancient Slavery and Abolition: from Hobbes to Hollywood (2011) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (2015).

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AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction, Justine McConnell 1 From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study ofClassical Myth and the Brazilian Novel, Patrice Rankine 2 Ibrahim Al-Koni’s Lost Oasis as Atlantis and His Demon asTyphon, William M. Hutchins 3 Greek Myth and Mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera’s The Matriarchand The Dream Swimmer, Simon Perris4 War, Religion and Tragedy: The Revolt of the Muckers inLuiz Antonio de Assis Brasil’s Videiras de Cristal,Sofia Frade5 Translating Myths, Translating Fictions, Lorna Hardwick 6 Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki’snovels and in Other Works of Contemporary JapaneseLiterature, Giorgio Amitrano 7 ‘It’s All in the Game’: Greek Myth and The Wire, Adam Ganz 8 Writing a New Irish Odyssey: Theresa Kishkan’s A Man ina Distant Field, Fiona Macintosh 9 The Minotaur on the Russian Internet: Viktor Pelevin’sHelmet of Horror, Anna Ljunggren 10 Diagnosis: Overdose – Status: Critical. Odysseys inBernhard Schlink’s Die Heimkehr, Sebastian Matzner 11 Narcissus and the Furies: Myth and Docufiction inJonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones, Edith Hall12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the ClassicalPast: Twenty-first Century Re-imaginingsof Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence, Efrossini Spentzou13 The ‘Poem of Force’ in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and ChloeHooper, The Tall Man, Margaret Reynolds 14 Young Female Heroes from Sophocles to the Twenty-FirstCentury, Helen Eastman 15 Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Readthe Air, Justine McConnell