Robert Graves and the classical tradition

Robert Graves and the classical tradition

by Gibson, A. G. G., (Alisdair G. G.)

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The origin for this collection of essays was three research seminars held under a single title, 'Classics and Robert Graves: a relationship in literature, translation and adaptation."

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  • Full title :Robert Graves and the classical tradition / edited by A.G.G. Gibson.

Summary

The origin for this collection of essays was three research seminars held under a single title, 'Classics and Robert Graves: a relationship in literature, translation and adaptation."

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
  • Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2015

Notes

'The origin for this collection of essays was three research seminars held under a single title, 'Classics and Robert Graves: a relationship in literature, translation and adaptation' (acknowledgements).

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 370 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0198738056, 9780198738053, 0198738056
  • oclc:ocn919119397
  • LC Classification:PR6013.R35
  • Dewey Decimal:823.9/12

Table of Contents

List of Contributors -- Introduction / A.G.G. Gibson -- 1. 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves's Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction / Andrew Bennett -- 2. Claudius in the Library / Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman -- 3. Homer's Daughter: Graves's Vera Historia / Sheila Murnaghan -- 4. Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius -- Genesis, Gender, and Truth / Shaun Tougher -- 5. Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World / Jon Coulston -- 6. The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior / Sonia Sabnis -- 7. 'Essentially a Moral Problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Translation / Philip Burton -- 8. Robert Graves's The Greek Myths and Matriarchy / Sibylle Ihm -- 9. Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves's The Greek Myths / Vanda Zajko -- 10. Freedom to Invent: Graves's Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity / Isobel Hurst -- 11. Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves / John Burnside -- 12. Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance? / Tom Palaima -- 13. 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves's Augustus in Mussolini's Italy / Jo…

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Subjects

18.05 English literature Antike Civilization, Classical, in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Graves, Robert Graves, Robert, (Robert Ranke) History, Ancient, in literature Literatur Mythology, Classical, in literature Rezeption

Writers

Gibson, A. G. G., (Alisdair G. G.)

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