Classics and the Uses of Reception
Classical Receptions
1. Edition August 2006
352 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-3145-2
John Wiley & Sons
Further versions
This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on
the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline
of classics.
* A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory
plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of
classics.
* Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.
* Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to
established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.
* Draws on material from many different fields, from translation
studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance.
* Sets the agenda for classics in the future.
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Thinking Through Reception 1
Charles Martindale
1 Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory 14
William W. Batstone
Part I Reception in Theory 21
2 Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies 23
Ralph Hexter
3 Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas 32
Timothy Saunders Copyrighted Material
4 Text, Theory, and Reception 44
Kenneth Haynes
5 Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception 55
Genevieve Liveley
6 Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 67
Craig Kallendorf
7 Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation 80
Vanda Zajko
8 Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception 92
Mathilde Skoie
9 True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception 104
Tim Whitmarsh
10 The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative 116
Miriam Leonard
11 The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation 127
Katie Fleming
Part II Studies in Reception 139
12 The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics 141
Alexandra Lianeri
13 Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century 153
Richard F. Thomas
14 Foucault's Antiquity 168
James I. Porter
15 Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups 180
Siobhán McElduff
16 Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros 192
Helen Kaufmann
17 Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance 204
Lorna Hardwick
18 Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia 216
Pantelis Michelakis
19 Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo 227
Elizabeth Prettejohn
20 The Touch of Sappho 250
Simon Goldhill
21 (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint 274
John Henderson
22 Afterword: The Uses of "Reception" 288
Duncan F. Kennedy
Bibliography 294
Index 325
Charles Martindale
1 Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory 14
William W. Batstone
Part I Reception in Theory 21
2 Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies 23
Ralph Hexter
3 Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas 32
Timothy Saunders Copyrighted Material
4 Text, Theory, and Reception 44
Kenneth Haynes
5 Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception 55
Genevieve Liveley
6 Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 67
Craig Kallendorf
7 Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation 80
Vanda Zajko
8 Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception 92
Mathilde Skoie
9 True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception 104
Tim Whitmarsh
10 The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative 116
Miriam Leonard
11 The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation 127
Katie Fleming
Part II Studies in Reception 139
12 The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics 141
Alexandra Lianeri
13 Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century 153
Richard F. Thomas
14 Foucault's Antiquity 168
James I. Porter
15 Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups 180
Siobhán McElduff
16 Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros 192
Helen Kaufmann
17 Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance 204
Lorna Hardwick
18 Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia 216
Pantelis Michelakis
19 Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo 227
Elizabeth Prettejohn
20 The Touch of Sappho 250
Simon Goldhill
21 (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint 274
John Henderson
22 Afterword: The Uses of "Reception" 288
Duncan F. Kennedy
Bibliography 294
Index 325
?Classics has a particular stake in critical thought that
addresses the problem of our (as classicists and readers)
historical alienation from the texts we read.? (Classics Journal
Online, September 2009)
"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."
Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford
"A first-rate collection, with some of the most exciting and
most rigorous of modern studies in classical reception."
Mary Beard, University of Cambridge
"[A] landmark collection ... The volume as a whole offers
readers an enriched theoretical understanding of reception and its
uses."
Fabula
"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."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
addresses the problem of our (as classicists and readers)
historical alienation from the texts we read.? (Classics Journal
Online, September 2009)
"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."
Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford
"A first-rate collection, with some of the most exciting and
most rigorous of modern studies in classical reception."
Mary Beard, University of Cambridge
"[A] landmark collection ... The volume as a whole offers
readers an enriched theoretical understanding of reception and its
uses."
Fabula
"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."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Charles Martindale is Professor of Latin at the
University of Bristol He has written extensively on the reception
of classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical Redeeming
the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception
(1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions of
Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as Shakespeare and the
Classics (2004). His most recent book is Latin Poetry and
the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (2005).
Richard F. Thomas 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 Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in
Intertextuality (1999) and Virgil and the Augustan
Reception (2001). He is currently working on a commentary to
Horace, Odes 4 and a coedited volume on the performance
artistry of Bob Dylan.
University of Bristol He has written extensively on the reception
of classical poetry. In addition to the theoretical Redeeming
the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception
(1993), he has edited or coedited collections on the receptions of
Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as Shakespeare and the
Classics (2004). His most recent book is Latin Poetry and
the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (2005).
Richard F. Thomas 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 Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in
Intertextuality (1999) and Virgil and the Augustan
Reception (2001). He is currently working on a commentary to
Horace, Odes 4 and a coedited volume on the performance
artistry of Bob Dylan.
