"After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the th…
"The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classica…
Studies the cultural impact and audience reception of King Kong from the 1933 release of the original film until today.
"Stand in the Trench, Achilles examines the range of classical receptions in British poetry of the First World War. Elizabeth Vandiver considers poets from a wide social spectrum and discusses the ways in which they refigured classical literature. Vandiver demonstrates that clas…
"This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the promulgation of the Pentateuch and its acceptance as authoritative Torah includes contributions from international specialists on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Samaritan history, colonial theory, Mediterranean…
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting …
Biographical note: S. Douglas Olson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA/University of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany. This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at …
"R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the lively manifestos that announced the appearance of new artistic movements shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that these arts might take on attributes of the …
Værk og læser: en antologi om receptionsforskning
by Olsen, Michel, Kelstrup, Gunver
fromBorgen/basis
"Before Captain Cook's three voyages, to Europeans the globe was uncertain and dangerous: after, it was comprehensible and ordered. Written as a conceptual field guide to the voyages, Longitude and Empire offers a significant rereading of both the expeditions and modern politica…
"Pierluigi Leone Gatti beleuchtet die Geschichte der philologischen Rezeption von Ovids Werk. Anhand von exegetischem Material (Scholien, Glossen und Zusammenfassungen) verfolgt er die Stellung Ovids und seiner Werke von der Antike bis ins Mittelalter. Die verschiedenen Sprachte…