Classics and the Uses of Reception

Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Classics and the Uses of Reception

Editor(s): Charles Martindale, Richard F. Thomas

Published Online: 11 FEB 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405131469

Online ISBN: 9780470774007

DOI: 10.1002/9780470774007

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This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

  • A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics.
  • Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.
  • Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.
  • Draws on material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance.
  • Sets the agenda for classics in the future.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Introduction: Thinking Through Reception (pages 1–13)

      Charles Martindale

    1. Chapter 1

      Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory (pages 14–26)

      William W. Batstone

  4. Part 1: Reception in Theory

    1. Chapter 2

      Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies (pages 21–31)

      Ralph Hexter

    2. Chapter 3

      Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas (pages 32–43)

      Timothy Saunders

    3. Chapter 4

      Text, Theory, and Reception (pages 44–54)

      Kenneth Haynes

    4. Chapter 5

      Surfing the Third Wave?: Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception (pages 55–66)

      Genevieve Liveley

    5. Chapter 6

      Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader (pages 67–79)

      Craig Kallendorf

    6. Chapter 7

      Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation (pages 80–91)

      Vanda Zajko

    7. Chapter 8

      Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception (pages 92–103)

      Mathilde Skoie

    8. Chapter 9

      True Histories Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception (pages 104–115)

      Tim Whitmarsh

    9. Chapter 10

      The Uses of Reception Derrida and the Historical Imperative (pages 116–126)

      Miriam Leonard

    10. Chapter 11

      The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation (pages 127–137)

      Katie Fleming

  5. Part 2: Studies in Reception

    1. Chapter 12

      The Homeric Moment?: Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics (pages 138–152)

      Alexandra Lianeri

    2. Chapter 13

      Looking for Ligurinus an Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century (pages 153–167)

      Richard F. Thomas

    3. Chapter 14

      Foucault's Antiquity (pages 168–179)

      James I. Porter

    4. Chapter 15

      Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups (pages 180–191)

      Siobhán McElduff

    5. Chapter 16

      Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek WalcottY's Omeros (pages 192–203)

      Helen Kaufmann

    6. Chapter 17

      Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance (pages 204–215)

      Lorna Hardwick

    7. Chapter 18

      Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia (pages 216–226)

      Pantelis Michelakis

    8. Chapter 19

      Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo (pages 227–249)

      Elizabeth Prettejohn

    9. Chapter 20

      The Touch of Sappho (pages 250–273)

      Simon Goldhill

    10. Chapter 21

      (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint (pages 274–287)

      John Henderson

    11. Chapter 22

      Afterword: The Uses of “Reception” (pages 288–293)

      Duncan F. Kennedy

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      Bibliography (pages 294–324)

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      Index (pages 325–335)

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