Title Classics and national cultures / edited by Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 373 pages) : illustrations Series Classical presences Classical presences. Contents 'Out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan' : Ireland, the classics, and independence / Nicholas Allen -- Marooned Mandarins : Freud, classical education, and the Jews of Vienna / Richard H. Armstrong -- Classical culture for a classical country : scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy / Giovanna Ceserani -- Classical education and the early American democratic style / Joy Connolly -- Mimicry and classical allusion in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men / Emily Greenwood -- Editing the nation : classical scholarship in Greece, c.1930 / Constanze Güthenke -- Eastern European nations, Western culture, and the classical tradition / Asen Kirin -- The cosmic race and a heap of broken images : Mexico's classical past and the modern Creole imagination / Andrew Laird -- Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek literature / Vassilis Lambropoulos -- How to build a national epic : Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland / Fernanda Moore -- Heraclitus of the Highveld : the universalism (ancient and modern) of T.J. Haarhoff / Grant Parker -- Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews / James I. Porter -- Contestatory classics in 1920s China / Haun Saussy -- The new Alexandrian library / Susan A. Stephens -- Translatio and difference : Western classics in modern Japan / Yasunari Takada -- Alexander Sikandar / Phiroze Vasunia Summary This book seeks to understand the ways in which national cultures have engaged with classical Greece and Rome, and how classical cultures have contributed to the idea of nations and nationalisms. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? In this volume of essays an international team of scholars investigate these vexed relationships. A key feature of the collection is the expanded range of national cultures, old and new, that are considered in relation to Classics--not just those of Germany, Greece, and Italy, but also China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, among other regions. Classics and National Cultures poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms. --Book Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Civilization -- Classical influences Civilization, Classical. Nationalism. nationalism. Civilization, Classical Civilization -- Classical influences Klassizismus Kultur Nationalbewusstsein History - General. History & Archaeology. Nationalismus -- Altertum. Altertum -- Nationalismus. Klassizismus. Kultur. Nationalbewusstsein. identité nationale -- Rome -- influence exercée -- études diverses. nationalisme -- Grèce antique -- influence exercée -- études diverses. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Stephens, Susan A Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966- ISBN 9780191594205 0191594202 9780199212989 0199212988

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