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Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception
Contributor(s): Richardson, Edmund (Editor)
ISBN: 1350017256     ISBN-13: 9781350017252
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $158.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - Greece
- History | Ancient - Rome
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
Dewey: 938
LCCN: 2018014301
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
- Cultural Region - Italy
 
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Publisher Description:

Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from American public-school classrooms to contemporary right-wing politics. How does the reception of the ancient world change under impossible strain?

Its protagonists are 'marginal' figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the 'marginal' shapes the 'central' as much as vice versa - and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of 'centre' and 'margins' produce? How can 'marginal' receptions be recovered most effectively?

Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception.

Contributor Bio(s): Richardson, Edmund: - Edmund Richardson is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University, UK. He has published Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity (2013), and was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers in 2016.