Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy presents fifteen all-new essays on how fantasy draws on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice.
Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy presents fifteen all-new essays on how fantasy draws on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice.
Brett M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of several essays on Greek epic and drama, as well as classical receptions in contemporary media (including film, television, and comics). He was also co-editor of Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (OUP 2015). Benjamin Eldon Stevens is the author of Silence in Catullus (Wisconsin UP 2013) and numerous articles on classical receptions, Latin poetry, and linguistics and its history. With Brett M. Rogers, he co-edited Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (OUP 2015). Currently at Trinity University, he has also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Hollins University, and Bard College, including for the Bard Prison Initiative.
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* Introduction: Fantasies of Antiquity * Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound * Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University * PART I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy * 1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern Fantasy * Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College * 2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition...58 * Cecilie Flugt, Danish Academy in Rome * 3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration....77 * Genevieve S. Gessert, American Academy in Rome * 4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft...... 109 * Robinson Peter Krämer, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn * PART II: False Medievalism and Other Ancient Fantasies * 5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...138 * Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University * 6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses...171 * Jeff Winkle, Calvin College * 7. A Time for Fantasy: Retelling Apuleius in in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces......190 * Marcus Folch, Columbia University * PART III: Children and (Other) Ancient Monsters * 8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature ...224 * Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University * 9. Orestes and the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter SeriesL....249 * Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound * 10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy....281 * Antonia Syson, Purdue University * 11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Mythology and Disney/Pixar's Brave...303 * Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College * PART IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity * 12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater)....329 * Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pomona College * 13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships.....354 * Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida * 14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire..........378 * Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas-Austin * Works Cited.... 403
* Introduction: Fantasies of Antiquity * Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound * Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University * PART I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy * 1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern Fantasy * Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College * 2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition...58 * Cecilie Flugt, Danish Academy in Rome * 3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration....77 * Genevieve S. Gessert, American Academy in Rome * 4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft...... 109 * Robinson Peter Krämer, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn * PART II: False Medievalism and Other Ancient Fantasies * 5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...138 * Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University * 6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses...171 * Jeff Winkle, Calvin College * 7. A Time for Fantasy: Retelling Apuleius in in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces......190 * Marcus Folch, Columbia University * PART III: Children and (Other) Ancient Monsters * 8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature ...224 * Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University * 9. Orestes and the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter SeriesL....249 * Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound * 10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy....281 * Antonia Syson, Purdue University * 11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Mythology and Disney/Pixar's Brave...303 * Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College * PART IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity * 12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater)....329 * Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pomona College * 13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships.....354 * Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida * 14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire..........378 * Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas-Austin * Works Cited.... 403
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