A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in–depth readings, including both popular and less well–known examples INDICE: Notes on Contributors .Introduction .Section 1: Mythography .1. Robert Fowler, Greek Mythography .2. Greg Hayes, Roman Mythography .3. James Clark, Myth and the Medieval Church .4. John Mulryan, The Renaissance Mythographers .5. John Talbot, Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception .6. Sheila Murnaghan & Deborah H. Roberts, Myth Collections for Children .7. Ika Willis, Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings .Section 2: Approaches and Themes .8. Greta Hawes, Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory .9. Sarah Iles Johnston, The Comparative Approach .10. Lillian Doherty, Revisionism .11. Didier Khan, Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths .12. Phiroze Vasunia, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy and India .13. Andreas Zanker, The Golden Age .14. Peter Davies, Matriarchy and Utopia .Section 3: Myth, Creativity and the Mind .15. Joanna Paul, The Half–Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the 21st Century .16. Heather Tolliday, Myth as Case–Study .17. Meg Harris Williams, Mythical Narrative and Self–Development .18. Emily Pillinger, Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf s Classical Visions .Section 4: Iconic Figures and Texts .19. Genevieve Liveley, Orpheus and Eurydice .20. Rose Barrow, Narcissus and Echo .21. Tony Keen, Prometheus, Pygmalion and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology .22. Fiachra Mac G ráin, Dionysus in Rome .23. Julia Gaisser, Cupid and Gaisser .24. Kathryn Mckinley, Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: a New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture .25. John C Briggs, Francis Bacon s Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds .26. Jeanne Nuechterlein, Pieter Bruegel the Elder s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus .27. George Burrows, Ancient and Modern Re–sounding: Monteverdi s Il ritorno d Ulisse in patria .28. Michael O Neill, Shelley Prometheus Unbound .29. Helen Slaney, George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion .30. Kurt Lampe, Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus .31. Mette Hjort, Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier s Medea .32. Lisa Saltzman, Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: .On Tortures Ancient and Modern .Index
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- Fecha Publicación: 29/03/2017
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