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OverviewClassics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from American public-school classrooms to contemporary right-wing politics. How does the reception of the ancient world change under impossible strain? Its protagonists are ‘marginal’ figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the ‘marginal’ shapes the ‘central’ as much as vice versa – and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of ‘centre’ and ‘margins’ produce? How can ‘marginal’ receptions be recovered most effectively? Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Edmund Richardson (Lecturer in Classics, Durham University, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781350166264ISBN 10: 135016626 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 28 May 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction - Edmund Richardson - Durham University, UK 2. Thinking with classical reception: critical distance, critical licence, critical amnesia? - Lorna Hardwick - Open University, UK 3. Daphnis transformed: Aphra Behn's politics of translation. - Amanda Klause - Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, USA 4. Local engagements with Ancient Greek vases in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece, c.1800-1833. - Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis - University of St Andrews, UK 5. The hand that shook the world: Daniel Dunglas Home's disembodied classics. - Edmund Richardson - Durham University, UK 6. Picturing Antiquity: photography, performance and Julia Margaret Cameron. - Jennifer Wallace - Cambridge University, UK 7. High culture in low company? The reception of ancient 'homosexuality' in the pornographic The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: The Recollections of a Mary-Ann. - Jennifer Ingleheart - Durham University, UK 8. The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henriquez Urena and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud. - Rosa Andujar - King's College, London, UK 9. Beyond the limits of art and war trauma: David Jones 'In Parenthesis'. - Edith Hall - King's College, London, UK 10. Classics down the mineshaft: a buried history. - Henry Stead - Open University, UK 11. Extreme Classicisms: Jorge Luis Borges. - Laura Jansen - University of Bristol, UK 12. The costly fabric of conservatism: Classical references in contemporary public culture. - Maarten De Pourcq - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Bibliography IndexReviewsThis is a thought-provoking, engaging volume. Its scope ensures that it will appeal to a wide range of audiences, while pushing us to think further not only about the reception of classics in contexts that have often been seen as 'marginal', 'peripheral', or in extremis, but also to see how these 'edges' have been altered and re-shaped by those engaging with Graeco-Roman antiquity. * Classics for All * [The contributors] have enlivened marginal voices upon whose winged-words were the Greeks and Romans. The range of these voices is proof that Classics has never truly been the exclusive realm of the elite male, despite attempts by the latter to make it so ... Classics in Extremis is an excellent and timely addition to the contemporary scholarly zeitgeist. * Ancient World Magazine * This volume has been thought-provoking ... As the contributors wanted to, they have enlivened marginal voices upon whose winged-words were the Greeks and Romans. The range of these voices is proof that Classics has never truly been the exclusive realm of the elite male, despite attempts by the latter to make it so. There is no doubt that a wealth of knowledge about the ancient world can be found within this untapped well of thought ... Classics in Extremis is an excellent and timely addition to the contemporary scholarly zeitgeist. * Ancient World Magazine * This is a thought-provoking, engaging volume. Its scope ensures that it will appeal to a wide range of audiences, while pushing us to think further not only about the reception of classics in contexts that have often been seen as 'marginal', 'peripheral', or in extremis, but also to see how these 'edges' have been altered and re-shaped by those engaging with Graeco-Roman antiquity. * Classics for All * Author InformationEdmund Richardson is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University, UK. He has published Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity (2013), and was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers in 2016. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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