A handbook to the reception of classical mythology

著者

• Zajko, Vanda
• Hoyle, Helena

書誌事項

A handbook to the reception of classical mythology

edited by Vanda Zajko and Helena Hoyle

（Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception）

Wiley Blackwell, 2017

• : hardback

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

目次

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Vanda Zajko Part I Mythography 13 1 Greek Mythography 15 Robert L. Fowler 2 Roman Mythography 29 Gregory Hays 3 Myth and the Medieval Church 43 James G. Clark 4 The Renaissance Mythographers 59 John Mulryan 5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception 75 John Talbot 6 Myth Collections for Children 87 Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts 7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings 105 Ika Willis Part II Approaches and Themes 121 8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory 123 Greta Hawes 9 The Comparative Approach 139 Sarah Iles Johnston 10 Revisionism 153 Lillian Doherty 11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths 165 Didier Kahn 12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India 179 Phiroze Vasunia 13 The Golden Age 193 Andreas T. Zanker 14 Matriarchy and Utopia 213 Peter Davies Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind 229 15 The Half-Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the Twenty-First Century 231 Joanna Paul 16 Myth as Case Study 243 Heather Tolliday 17 Mythical Narrative and Self-Development 257 Meg Harris Williams 18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf 's Classical Visions 271 Emily Pillinger Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts 285 19 Orpheus and Eurydice 287 Genevieve Liveley 20 Narcissus and Echo 299 Rosemary Barrow 21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology 311 Tony Keen 22 Dionysus in Rome 323 Fiachra Mac Gorain 23 Cupid and Psyche 337 Julia Haig Gaisser 24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: A New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture 353 Kathryn McKinley 25 Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds 367 John Channing Briggs 26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 379 Jeanne Nuechterlein 27 Ancient and Modern Re-sounding: Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria 391 George Burrows 28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound 407 Michael O'Neill 29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 419 Helen Slaney 30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus 433 Kurt Lampe 31 Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier's Medea 447 Mette Hjort 32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern 463 Lisa Saltzman Index 475

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB28553481
• ISBN:
  • 9781444339604
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Hoboken, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 482 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 292.1/3
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Mythology, Classical -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB17755564