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21 produkter
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
Av Michael Simpson, Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2007
1687 kr
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of …
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
Av Michael Simpson, Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2007
1687 kr
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of …
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
Av Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
Inbunden, 2007
3021 kr
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of …
History, Tragedy, Theory
Dialogues on Athenian Drama
Av Barbara Goff
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. This collection of essays on Athenian drama, the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to …
Classicising Crisis
The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Av Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
Häftad, 2023
671 kr
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Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a …
Citizen Bacchae
Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece
Av Barbara Goff
Inbunden, 2004
733 kr
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What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such activities for them and their culture? By offering answers to these questions, this study aims to recover and reconstruct an important dimension of the lived experience of ancient …
Citizen Bacchae
Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece
Av Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2004
1266 kr
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What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such activities for them and their culture? By offering answers to these questions, this study aims to recover and reconstruct an important dimension of the lived experience of ancient …
The Noose of Words
Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos
Av Barbara Goff
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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This 1990 book is a reading of Euripides' Hippolytos, a central play for the study of Euripides and of Greek tragedy. Dr Goff approaches the play through the techniques of modern literary criticism, including deconstruction and feminism, and is able to shed light on this influential text through …
The Noose of Words
Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos
Av Barbara Goff
Inbunden, 1990
1797 kr
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This 1990 book is a reading of Euripides' Hippolytos, a central play for the study of Euripides and of Greek tragedy. Dr Goff approaches the play through the techniques of modern literary criticism, including deconstruction and feminism, and is able to shed light on this influential text through …
Classics and Colonialism
Av Barbara Goff
Häftad, 2005
498 kr
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This collection of well-focussed essays is the first to examine explicitly the role played by the literature and culture of classical antiquity in the various discourses that established, maintained or undermined the British empire. Drawing on reception studies and postcolonial studies, the …
Euripides
Trojan Women
Av Barbara Goff
Häftad, 2008
433 kr
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Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, …
Thinking the Olympics
The Classical Tradition and the Modern Games
Av Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
Häftad, 2011
651 kr
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This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise, sporting achievement, and catastrophic shortcoming, so the revived Games have been …
Classicising Crisis
The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Av Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a …
Classicising Crisis
The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Av Michael Simpson, Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2020
876 kr
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Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a …
Classicising Crisis
The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Av Michael Simpson, Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2020
857 kr
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Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a …
Euripides: Trojan Women
Av Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2013
466 kr
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Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides'' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, …
Euripides: Trojan Women
Av Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2013
466 kr
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Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides'' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, …
Your Secret Language'
Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa
Av Barbara Goff, Sarah Annes Brown
Häftad, 2014
578 kr
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This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling …
Your Secret Language'
Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa
Av Barbara Goff, Sarah Annes Brown
Inbunden, 2013
2348 kr
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This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling …
Your Secret Language'
Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa
Av Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2013
613 kr
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This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling …
Your Secret Language'
Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa
Av Barbara Goff
E-bok, 2013
626 kr
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This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling …
