| Reception Studies Contributor(s): Hardwick, Lorna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198528655 ISBN-13: 9780198528654 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: This book discusses the recent reception of Greek and Roman material in modern drama, poetry, and film and sets out the artistic and political contexts in which this has taken place. The author emphasizes the diversity of reception and reshaping that took place even within antiquity as well as subsequently and shows how the selection, transmission and refiguring of texts can be used to map larger shifts in social and cultural frameworks. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Ancient - General - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Dewey: 809.914 |
| Series: New Surveys in the Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.16" W x 9.18" (0.48 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book discusses the recent reception of Greek and Roman material in modern drama, poetry, and film and sets out the artistic and political contexts in which this has taken place. The author emphasizes the diversity of reception and reshaping that took place even within antiquity as well as subsequently and shows how the selection, transmission and refiguring of texts can be used to map larger shifts in social and cultural frameworks. |