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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan A Stephens; Phiroze Vasunia |
ISBN: | 9780199212989 0199212988 |
OCLC Number: | 876672287 |
Notes: | Índice. |
Description: | XII, 373 p. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction ; 1. 'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence ; 2. Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna ; 3. Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy ; 4. Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style ; 5. Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men ; 6. Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930 ; 7. Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition ; 8. The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination ; 9. Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature ; 10. How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland ; 11. Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff ; 12. Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews ; 13. Contestatory Classics in 1920s China ; 14. The New Alexandrian Library ; 15. Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan ; 16. Alexander Sikandar |
Series Title: | Classical presences |
Responsibility: | edited by Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia. |
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Marked by the variety of contributions and the range of their reference ... Ambitious and Demanding. * Victoria Maul, Times Literary Supplement *
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