Tradition, translation, trauma : the classic and the modern /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Parker, Jan; Mathews, Timothy
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Classical presences
Subjects:
Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=1e83cad934334a57a132de3023cebe68
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780191617607
Index Number: PN886
CLC: H059-09
Contents: Images of tradition, translation, trauma... /
Handing on, making anew, refusing the classic:
Proemion : translating a paean of praise /
Fuzzy connections : classical texts and modern poetry in English /
Pope's Trojan geography /
Sophoclean journeys /
Cicero : gentleman and orator : metaphors in eighteenth-century reception /
Eating Eumolpus : Fellini Satyricon and dreaming tradition /
After Freud : Sophocles' Oedipus in the twenty-first century /
Modernity and its price : nostalgia and the classic:
The price of the modern : Walter Benjamin and the counterfactuals /
Composite cultures, chaos wor(l)ds : relational poetics, textual hybridity, and the future of opacity /
Time, free verse, and the gods of modernism /
Lost in nostalgia : modernity's repressed other /
The time of memory, the time of trauma:
No consolidation : the lamenting voice and public memory /
The abject eidos : trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra /
What's Hecuba to him ... that he should weep for her? /
Modernism's nostalgics, nostalgia's modernity /
Mediating trauma : how do we read the Holocaust memoirs? /
History as traumatic memory: Das A?fricas /
Reading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti /