Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192543875, 9780198814122, 0192543873

Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198814122, 0198814127

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has lon

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Postdramatic Tragedies (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198817680, 0198817681

Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition t

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Lucretius and the Early Modern (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198713845, 0198713843

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem

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Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199689484, 0199689482

The Russian reception of the greatest Roman poet, Vergil, provided Russian thinkers with a way in which to define Russia

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Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198746676, 0198746679

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in

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Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198803034, 0198803036

In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed. The list of censures is long and varied, from political corrupt

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Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192524225, 9780198767091, 0192524224

Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first centu

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Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192584908, 9780198846031, 0192584901

Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of wri

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Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198833031, 0198833032

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a

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