Framing Classical reception studies: different perspectives on a developing field

by Haan, Nathalie de Pourcq, Maarten de Rijser, David

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Full title :Framing Classical reception studies : different perspectives on a developing field / edited by Maarten De Pourcq, Nathalie de Haan, David Rijser.

Summary

"Framing Classical Reception Studies contains a representative number of analytic and synthetic contributions by scholars from diverse parts of the field of Classical Reception Studies. Together, they afford a synoptic view and typology of an extremely large and continuously diversifying discipline. Attentive to questions such as what, by whom, in what contexts and to what ends Classics have functioned and are functioning in our culture, all contributors ask themselves from what conceptual or disciplinary frame they approach the reception of the cultures of classical Greek and Roman antiquity. Within this questioning format, the book also contains suggestions for future agendas of research, and forcefully argues for the political, cultural and cognitive relevance of classical receptions in the Academy"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 298 pages : : chiefly color illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004427013, 9004427015
oclc:on1154891511
LC Classification:DE71
Dewey Decimal:938.0072

Framing Classical reception studies: introduction / Maarten De Pourcq, Nathalie de Haan and David Rijser -- Aspirations and mantras in Classical reception research: Can there really be dialogue between ancient and modern? / Lorna Hardwick -- Familiarity and recognition: towards a new vocabulary for Classical reception studies / Clare Foster -- Of mice and manuscripts: literary reception and the material text / Fran Middleton -- Approaching Classical reception through the frame of social class / Edith Hall and Henry Stead -- Classical reception in Medieval preaching: Pyramus and Thisbe in three Fifteenth-century sermons / Pietro Delcorno -- Rutilius Namatianus' De reditu suo: the anthropology of reception / Piet Gerbrandy -- Comenius: the new Tityrus of Leibniz (G.W. Leibniz, In Johannem Amosum Comenium) / Cecilia Pavarani -- Innocence framed: Classical myth as a strategic tool in Jacob Duym's Nassausche Perseus (1606) / Jeroen Jansen -- Nepos and Suetonius meet the early modern period: some observations on transformations of ancient biographical literature in humanist editions and commentaries / Ronny Kaiser -- Framing humanist visions of Rome: heritage construction in Latin liter…

Subjects

Antike Civilisation ancienne -- Influence Civilization, Classical -- Influence Civilization, Modern -- Classical influ… Classical literature Classical literature -- History and cri… Comparative literature -- Classical and… Comparative literature -- Modern and cl… Criticism, interpretation, etc Littérature ancienne -- Histoire et cri… Littérature comparée -- Ancienne et mod… Littérature comparée -- Moderne et anci… Rezeptionsästhetik Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft