Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination, Winkler Martin M.

Автор: Steel
Название: The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
ISBN: 0521729807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521729802
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Описание: A comprehensive introduction to Cicero`s writings for students and non-specialists. Draws on recent transformative research on the political and literary culture of the late Roman Republic and presents important new research on Cicero`s reception in late antiquity and from the Renaissance period onwards.

Автор: Webb Ruth
Название: Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical
ISBN: 1138247812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138247819
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Описание: This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural context, emphasizing the importance of the visual imagination in ancient responses to rhetoric, poetry and historiography. By linking the theoretical writings on ekphrasis with ancient theories of imagination, emotion and language, she brings out the persuasive and emotive function of vivid language in the literature of the period. This study also addresses the contrast between the ancient and the modern definitions of the term ekphrasis, underlining the different concepts of language, literature and reader response that distinguish the ancient from the modern approach. In order to explain the ancient understanding of ekphrasis and its place within the larger system of rhetorical training, the study includes a full analysis of the ancient technical sources (rhetorical handbooks, commentaries) which aims to make these accessible to non-specialists. The concluding chapter moves away from rhetorical theory to consider the problems and challenges involved in 'turning listeners into spectators' with a particular focus on the role of ekphrasis within ancient fiction. Attention is also paid to texts that lie at the intersection of the modern and ancient definitions of ekphrasis, such as Philostratos' Imagines and the many ekphraseis of buildings and monuments to be found in Late Antique literature.

Автор: Karen ni Mheallaigh
Название: The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy
ISBN: 1108483038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108483032
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Описание: This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch`s mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.

Автор: Ricardo Apostol; Anastasia Bakogianni
Название: Locating Classical Receptions on Screen
ISBN: 3319964569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319964560
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Описание: This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and film, the essays in this collection raise questions fundamental to the future of reception studies. The first section, ‘Beyond Fidelity’, deals with idiosyncratic adaptations of ancient sources; the second section, ‘Beyond Influence’, discusses modern works purporting to adapt ancient figures or themes that are less straightforwardly ancient than they may at first appear; while the last section, ‘Beyond Original’, uses films that lack even these murky connections to antiquity to challenge the notion that studying reception requires establishing historical connections between works. As questions of audience, interpretation, and subjectivity are central to most contemporary fields of study, this is a collection that is of interest to a wide variety of readers in the humanities.

Автор: Winkler, Martin M. (george Mason University, Virginia)
Название: Classical literature on screen
ISBN: 1107191289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107191280
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Описание: This book argues for a new approach to the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. Examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history using ancient theories of drama and rhetoric. Demonstrates the undiminished vitality and importance of classical antiquity in our visually oriented media.

Автор: Hunter, Richard
Название: The Measure of homer
ISBN: 1108428312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108428316
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Описание: Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. This book explores central themes in the reception of the Homeric poems in antiquity, and pays particular attention to Homer`s importance in shaping ancient culture. It will appeal to all those seriously interested in Greek and Roman literature and culture.

Автор: Richlin, Amy (university Of California, Los Angele
Название: Slave theater in the roman republic
ISBN: 1107152313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107152311
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Описание: As war ravaged Italy in the 200s BCE, slave actors spoke truth to power. Based on the plays of Plautus, this book brings the voices of Roman slaves to the history of theater and illuminates a major body of evidence for the history of slavery. An inspiring story of resistance.

Автор: Nwosu, Maik
Название: The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema
ISBN: 0367874482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367874483
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa`s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema and Nollywood, it examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern

Автор: Nwosu, Maik
Название: Comic imagination in modern african literature and cinema
ISBN: 1138942669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138942660
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This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa's under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, the book examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern African literature, which sometimes creatively traces a path back to African folklore, and in Nollywood -- with its aesthetic relationship to Onitsha Market Literature -- the pertinent styles range from comic simplicitas to comic magnitude with the facilitation of language, characterization, and plot by a poetics of laughter or lightness as an important aspect of style. The poetics at work is substantially carnivalesque, a comic preference or tendency that is attributable, in different contexts, to a purposeful comic sensibility or an unstructured but ingrained or virtual comic mode. In the best instances of this comic vision, the characteristic laughter or lightness can facilitate a revaluation or reappreciation of the world, either because of the aesthetic structure of signification or the consequent chain of signification. This referentiality or progressive signification is an important aspect of the poetics of laughter as the African comic imagination variously reflects, across genres, both the festival character of comedy and its pedagogical value. This book marks an important contribution to African literature, postcolonial literature, world literature, comic imagination, poetics, critical theory, and African cinema.

Автор: Palardy
Название: The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film
ISBN: 3319928848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319928845
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Описание: This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barcel?, Ion de Sosa, Jos? Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Men?ndez Salm?n offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.

Автор: Micali, Simona
Название: Towards a posthuman imagination in literature and media
ISBN: 1788745825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788745826
Издательство: Peter Lang
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What if the human species were to get in touch with another intelligent species, thus far unknown?

This question is the impetus for a vast, exciting catalogue of science fiction and fantasy stories. They serve as hypothetical answers in narrative form but can also be regarded as cognitive exercises by which we investigate the nature and destiny of humanity. In other words, any creature and any story produced in response to this question requires an assessment of our notion of the human and a redefinition of our position and role in the world.

This volume aims at mapping and analysing the very rich catalogue of non-human figures which inhabit our contemporary imagery, with particular regard to science fiction literature and film. It is suggested that monsters, clones, zombies, aliens, artificial beings, cyborgs and mutants can function as ideological tools intended to confirm the role of humankind (and Western civilization) as the only possible standard of intelligent and ethical life. But they can also become cognitive instruments devised to question or criticize our vision of and behaviour toward the world, other species and ourselves. This privileged critical perspective – and the point of arrival of the book – is the category of the posthuman, which is regarded as the symbol of a possibly revolutionary vision of humanity, a wish and an invitation to embrace a new, more humble way of being and living.

Автор: Diana Q. Palardy
Название: The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film
ISBN: 3030065391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030065393
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barcel?, Ion de Sosa, Jos? Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Men?ndez Salm?n offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.