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Titre(s) : Classical traditions in modern fantasy [Texte imprimé] / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-367 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Comprend : Fantasies of antiquity / Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; Classical apparitions
in (pre- )modern fantasy ; Classical epic and the poetics of modern fantasy / Jesse
Weiner ; Theorizing fantasy: enchantment, parody, and the classical tradition / Cecilie
Flugt ; The mirror crack'd: fractured classicisms in the pre-Raphaelites and Victorian
illustration / Genevieve S. Gessert ; Classical antiquity and the timeless horrors
of H.P. Lovecraft / Robinson Peter Krämer ; False medievalism & other ancient fantasies
; Ancient underworlds in J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit / Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; C.S.
Lewis's The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jeff Winkle
; A time for fantasy: retelling Apuleius in in C.S. Lewis's Till we have faces / Marcus
Folch ; Children and (other) ancient monsters ; The classical pantheon in children's
fantasy literature / Sarah Annes Brown ; Orestes & the half-blood prince: ghosts
of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter series / Brett M. Rogers ; Filthy harpies and fictive
knowledge in Philip Pullman's Dark materials trilogy / Antonia Syson ; Girls in bears'
clothing in Greek mythology and Disney/Pixar's brave / Elizabeth Manwell ; (Post)modern
fantasies of antiquity ; Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The brainsex paintings"
(Plainwater) / Sasha-Mae Eccleston ; Aeneas' American new world in Jo Graham's Black
ships / Jennifer A. Rea ; Genre, mimesis, and Virgilian intertext in George R.R.
Martin's A song of ice and fire / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English
focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy,
literature, history, art, and cult practice. Presenting fifteen all-new essays intended
for both scholars and other readers of fantasy, this volume explores many of the most
significant examples of the modern genre-including the works of H. P. Lovecraft, J.
R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, J. K. Rowling's Harry
Potter series, George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series, and more-in relation
to important ancient texts such as Aeschylus' Oresteia, Aristotle's Poetics, Virgil's
Aeneid, and Apuleius' The Golden Ass. These varied studies raise fascinating questions
about genre, literary and artistic histories, and the suspension of disbelief required
not only of readers of fantasy but also of students of antiquity. Ranging from harpies
to hobbits, from Cyclopes to Cthulhu, and all manner of monster and myth in-between,
this comparative study of Classics and fantasy reveals deep similarities between ancient
and modern ways of imagining the world. Although antiquity and the present day differ
in many ways, at its base, ancient literature resonates deeply with modern fantasy's
image of worlds in flux and bodies in motion
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Rogers, Brett M.. Éditeur scientifique
Stevens, Benjamin Eldon. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Littérature fantastique -- Influence classique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190610067. - ISBN 0190610069. - ISBN 9780190610050. - ISBN 0190610050
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453529956
Notice n° :
FRBNF45352995
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