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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
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| Contents |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE COLONIAL PAST -- CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN WHITE AUSTRALASIA; CHAPTER 1 BLACK OUT: CLASSICIZING INDIGENEITY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; The Monograph of John Hunter (1793); 'A Native Wounded while asleep'; 'New Zealand War Canoe bidding defiance to the Ship'; Black Out; CHAPTER 2 AUSTRALIA AS UNDERWORLD: CONVICT CLASSICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; Introduction; Infernal geography; A 'jaunty Dantesquerie'; 'As great a tyrant as Nero ever was'; The afterlife |
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PART II THEATRE -- THEN AND NOWCHAPTER 3 AGAMEMNON COMES TO THE ANTIPODES: THE ORIGINS OF STUDENT DRAMA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY; Live on stage: a new departure; The earliest classical play at the University of Sydney; The first Agamemnon; Staging the play; The performances; From Agamemnon to a dramatic society; CHAPTER 4 SALAMIS AND GALLIPOLI: THE CAMPAIGNS OF PHILLIP MANN; CHAPTER 5 WESLEY ENOCH'S BLACK MEDEA; Euripides' Medea6; Enoch and Euripides; The Landscape of Jukurrpa; CHAPTER 6 WHAT WOMEN CRITICS KNOW THAT MEN DON'T; A theatrical frame; The comments; Afterlife |
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PART III POETRY AND CLASSICAL ECHOES IN NEW ZEALANDCHAPTER 7 JAMES K. BAXTER AND THE GORGON MOON; CHAPTER 8 CLODIA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS; PART IV FICTIONALIZING ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUITIES; CHAPTER 9 PARILIA POSCOR -- DAVID MALOUF REMEMBERS THE PARILIA (FASTI 4.721FF.); Exiles and aetiologies: The Parilia in Augustan poetry; The repetition of ritual: Frazer and the Fasti; The Parilia in Tomis; CHAPTER 10 IMAGINATIVE DISPLACEMENT: CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN THE YOUNG ADULT FICTION OF MARGARET MAHY; Suburban Classical: The Changeover; Harry and the Minotaur: The Tricksters |
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'Partly mythological': The Catalogue of the UniverseMemory and the modern city; Holding the world together; CHAPTER 11 CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN BERNARD BECKETT'S GENESIS , AUGUST AND LULLABY; Genesis; August; Lullaby; New Zealand settings and current topics; Philosophical questions; CHAPTER 12 DISPLACED PERSONS AND DISPLACED NARRATIVES IN S. D. GENTILL'S HERO TRILOGY; PART V AUSTRALASIA, GREECE AND ROME -- PAPER AND CANVAS; CHAPTER 13 PAINTING ANZACS IN AN EPIC LANDSCAPE: GREEK MYTH, THE TROJAN WAR AND SIDNEY NOLAN'S GALLIPOLI SERIES; The Trojan War, 1915; 'The Trojan War, 1915' -- Arthur Adams3 |
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Painting an epic landscape'Gallipoli'; Ancient Greek art and mutilated Anzacs; CHAPTER 14 OF HEROES AND HUMANS: MARIAN MAGUIRE'S COLONIZATION OF HERAKLES' MYTHICAL WORLD; Scholarship and exhibitions; Narrative and time in the series; The lithographs; Conclusion; PART VI ANTIQUITY ON THE AUSTRALASIAN SCREEN; CHAPTER 15 TEMPORAL TURBULENCE: RECEPTION STUDIES(') NOW; Turbulent temporality; Xena: Warrior Princess; Xena 's turbulent temporalities; CHAPTER 16 CLASSICAL EPIC IN PETER JACKSON'S MIDDLE-EARTH TRILOGIES; Introduction; Tolkien, Jackson and epic heroism; The ending of epic |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Australia
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Classical literature -- Appreciation -- New Zealand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Marguerite, 1965-, editor
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EBSCOhost
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| ISBN |
9781350021242 (e-book) |
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9781350021259 (e-book) |
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