Tradition, translation, trauma the classic and the modern / edited by Jan Parker, Timothy Mathews.

Other author Parker, Jan.
Other author Mathews, Timothy.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 358 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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SeriesClassical presences
Classical presences. ^A611052
Contents Prologue / Susan Bassnett -- Introduction: Images of tradition, translation, trauma... / Jan Parker -- Pt. I. Handing on, making anew, refusing the classic: Proemion : translating a paean of praise / Frederick Ahl -- 1. Fuzzy connections : classical texts and modern poetry in English / Lorna Hardwick -- 2. Pope's Trojan geography / David Hopkins -- 3. Sophoclean journeys / Pat Easterling -- 4. Cicero : gentleman and orator : metaphors in eighteenth-century reception / Matthew Fox -- 5. Eating Eumolpus : Fellini Satyricon and dreaming tradition / Richard Armstrong -- 6. After Freud : Sophocles' Oedipus in the twenty-first century / Rachel Bowlby -- pt. II. Modernity and its price : nostalgia and the classic: 7. The price of the modern : Walter Benjamin and the counterfactuals / Christopher Prendergast -- 8. Composite cultures, chaos wor(l)ds : relational poetics, textual hybridity, and the future of opacity / Jonathan Monroe -- 9. Time, free verse, and the gods of modernism / Ian Patterson -- 10. Lost in nostalgia : modernity's repressed other / Wen-chin Ouyang -- pt. III. The time of memory, the time of trauma: 11. No consolidation : the lamenting voice and public memory / Gail Holst-Warhaft -- 12. The abject eidos : trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra / Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- 13. What's Hecuba to him ... that he should weep for her? / Jan Parker -- 14. Modernism's nostalgics, nostalgia's modernity / George Rousseau -- 15. Mediating trauma : how do we read the Holocaust memoirs? / Piotr Kuhiwczak -- 16. History as traumatic memory: Das Áfricas / Helena Buescu -- 17. Reading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti / Timothy Mathews --anyone look in both directions at once? / Timothy Mathews -- Epilogue / Derek Attridge.
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