{"product_id":"classics-and-the-uses-of-reception-isbn-9781405131469","title":"Classics and the Uses of Reception","description":"This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eA pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSets the agenda for classics in the future.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Figures. \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Thinking Through Reception (Charles Martindale).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory (William W. Batstone).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Reception in Theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies (Ralph Hexter).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas (Timothy Saunders).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Text, Theory, and Reception (Kenneth Haynes).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception (Genevieve Liveley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader (Craig Kallendorf).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation (Vanda Zajko).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Passing on the Panpipe: Genre and Reception (Mathilde Skoie).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. True Histories: Lucien, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception (Tim Whitmarsh).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative (Miriam Leonard).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation (Katie Fleming).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Studies in Reception.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics (Alexandra Lianeri).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century (Richard F. Thomas).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Foucault’s Antiquity (James I. Porter).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception Among Non-Elite Groups (Siobhán McElduff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott’s Omeros (Helen Kaufmann).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance (Lorna Hardwick).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia (Pantelis Michelakis).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo (Elizabeth Prettejohn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Touch of Sappho (Simon Goldhill).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach’s Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint (John Henderson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Afterword: The Uses of \"Reception\" (Duncan F. Kennedy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  ?\u003ci\u003eClassics\u003c\/i\u003e has a particular stake in critical thought that addresses the problem of our (as classicists and readers) historical alienation from the texts we read.? (\u003ci\u003eClassics Journal Online\u003c\/i\u003e, September 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"There is much of great value scattered throughout the volume.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This collection of essays, a volume in the Classical Reception Series edited by Maria Wyke, deserves the close attention of anyone with an interest in reception studies and in particular in reception theory.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Hellenic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[A] landmark collection ... The volume as a whole offers readers an enriched theoretical understanding of reception and its uses.\" \u003ci\u003e(Fabula)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This body of work is not just a coordinated foray into someone else's territory; students of classical reception are writing a collective autobiography and developing a new charter for our discipline.\" \u003ci\u003e(Bryn Mawr Classical Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Martindale\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol He has written extensively on the reception of classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical \u003ci\u003eRedeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Classics\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eLatin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e (2005).\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard F. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eReading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in Intertextuality\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eVirgil and the Augustan Reception\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). He is currently working on a commentary to Horace, \u003ci\u003eOdes 4\u003c\/i\u003e and a coedited volume on the performance artistry of Bob Dylan.\u003c\/p\u003e  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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributions 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"In this thought-provoking and pioneering volume, the editors have put together a diverse collection of essays, which amply reflect the range of work currently carried out under the umbrella of classical reception studies. There is refreshingly no 'orthodoxy': instead, we are offered a stimulating series of questions, problems and possible solutions, which will help to provide much needed theoretical rigour to this emergent branch of classical scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiona Macintosh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate collection, with some of the most exciting and most rigorous of modern studies in classical reception.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Beard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, University of Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988926742757,"sku":"NP9781405131469","price":169.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405131469.jpg?v=1761782082","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/classics-and-the-uses-of-reception-isbn-9781405131469","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}