Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics
This book discusses the recent reception of Greek and Roman material in modern drama, poetry, and film and sets out the artistic and political contexts in which this has taken place. The author emphasizes the diversity of reception and reshaping that took place even within antiquity as well as subsequently and shows how the selection, transmission and refiguring of texts can be used to map larger shifts in social and cultural frameworks.
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Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics
This book discusses the recent reception of Greek and Roman material in modern drama, poetry, and film and sets out the artistic and political contexts in which this has taken place. The author emphasizes the diversity of reception and reshaping that took place even within antiquity as well as subsequently and shows how the selection, transmission and refiguring of texts can be used to map larger shifts in social and cultural frameworks.
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Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics

Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics

Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics

Reception Studies: New Surveys in the Classics

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This book discusses the recent reception of Greek and Roman material in modern drama, poetry, and film and sets out the artistic and political contexts in which this has taken place. The author emphasizes the diversity of reception and reshaping that took place even within antiquity as well as subsequently and shows how the selection, transmission and refiguring of texts can be used to map larger shifts in social and cultural frameworks.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198528654
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/17/2003
Series: New Surveys in the Classics , #33
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

The Open University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; 1. From the Classical Tradition to Reception Studies; 2. Reception within Antiquity; 3. Challenging Stereotypes - the Contexts of Reception; 4. Staging Receptions; 5. Film and Poetry; 6. (Re)Evalutations - (why) do Reception Studies matter?; Bibliography; Supplementary Bibliography; About the Author.
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