Classics And the Uses of Reception

by Martindale, Charles; Thomas, Richard F.

• ISBN13: 9781405131452
• ISBN10: 1405131454
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics. Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception. Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA. Draws on material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance. Sets the agenda for classics in the future.

Author Biography

Charles Martindale is Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol He has written extensively on the reception of classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as Shakespeare and the Classics (2004). His most recent book is Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (2005).

Richard F. Thomas is Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University. His interests are generally focused on Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature, on intertextuality, and on the reception of classical literature in all periods. Recent books include Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in Intertextuality (1999) and Virgil and the Augustan Reception (2001). He is currently working on a commentary to Horace, Odes 4 and a coedited volume on the performance artistry of Bob Dylan.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Thinking Through Reception

Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory

Reception in Theory

Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies

Discipline and Receive, or Making an Example Out of Marsyas

Text, Theory, and Reception

Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception

Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader

Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation

Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception

True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception

The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative

The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation

Studies in Reception: Translation, Subjectivity, Postcolonialism, Performance, Art and Visual Culture

The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity and the Meaning of the Classics

Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the 19th Century

Foucault 's Antiquity

Fractured Understanding: Towards a History of Classical Reception Among Non-Elite Groups

Decolonizing the Post-Colonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott 's Omeros

Remodelling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance

Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo

The Touch of Sappho

[At] the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon, or Philosophy in Paint

Afterword: 'The Uses of "Reception"'

Bibliography

Index

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