A Special Model of Classical Reception
Subtitle: Summaries and Short Narratives
Contributors: Bouvier, David; das Graças Augusto, Maria
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781527559073; 9781527557147
Subjects: Classical literature; Appreciation; History; History and criticism; Theory; Littérature ancienne; Histoire et critique; Théorie; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Description: The contributions to this volume cover a large diachronic, geographical, and cultural space. Some of the texts go back to antiquity, using the Odyssey as the most significant source for several reflections, both ancient and contemporary, and therefore the safest link between old and contemporary versions. In addition, in the modern and contemporary summaries and tales analysed here, predominance is given to epics (Homer and other famous stories known from the epic cycle) as a source, exemplified by texts belonging to various literary works from across the globe, focused on the influence that m.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Contributors; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One; title: Chapter Two; title: Chapter Three; title: Chapter Four; title: Chapter Five; title: Chapter Six; title: Chapter Seven; title: Chapter Eight; title: Chapter Nine; title: Index of Authors and Quotations; title: Index of Subjects