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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This landmark collection looks at the role reception plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics, and presents a wide variety of viewpoints on its value, use, and theoretical underpinnings. Contributions by scholars from Europe, the UK, and the USA illustrate a range of different approaches and methodological commitments, and employ material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance. The volume as a whole offers readers an enriched theoretical understanding of reception and its uses, and makes the case for reception constituting a vital part of classics in the future. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Thinking Through Reception 1 Charles Martindale 1 Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory 14 William W. Batstone Part I Reception in Theory 21 2 Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies 23 Ralph Hexter 3 Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas 32 Timothy Saunders Copyrighted Material 4 Text, Theory, and Reception 44 Kenneth Haynes 5 Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception 55 Genevieve Liveley 6 Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 67 Craig Kallendorf 7 Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation 80 Vanda Zajko 8 Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception 92 Mathilde Skoie 9 True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception 104 Tim Whitmarsh 10 The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative 116 Miriam Leonard 11 The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation 127 Katie Fleming Part II Studies in Reception 139 12 The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics 141 Alexandra Lianeri 13 Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century 153 Richard F. Thomas 14 Foucault's Antiquity 168 James I. Porter 15 Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups 180 Siobhán McElduff 16 Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros 192 Helen ...
