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Author:   Brenda Deen Schildgen ,  Ralph Hexter
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.526kg
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9781349720149

ISBN 10:   1349720143
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   09 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents     Introduction: “Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature” Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter   Epic Receptions Chapter 1 “Epic Worlds” Ralph Hexter   Chapter 2 “Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents” Wai Chee Dimock   Chapter 3 “Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalbá as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision” Arturo Arias   Chapter 4 “Reception Configurations: The case of European Epic in India” Brenda Deen Schildgen   Chapter 5 “Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad” Zina Giannopoulou   Greek Philosophical Receptions Chapter 6 “Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge” Jan Szaif<   Chapter 7 “ ‘Now we must consider that some of the ancients discovered the truth’”: Reception and Antiquity in Ancient Neoplatonism” Michael Griffin Chapter 8 “Reading and Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Arabic” Uwe Vagelpohl   Drama and Receptions Chapter 9 “A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn’s Medea and the Introduction of the ‘Sumerian’ to Modern German Literature” Adam Siegel Chapter 10 “American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted” Robert Borgen   Chapter 11 “Tamil Translation, French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot’s La Devadassi (1868)” Kristen Bergman Waha   Lyric Receptions Chapter 12 “Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten: Vernacular Universal, Erotica Sinica, and the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit” Chunjie Zhang Chapter 13 “The Mediterranean Metaphor” Kevin Batton   Chapter 14 “Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry”    Michelle Yeh   Politics and Sociology of Reception Chapter 15 “Meaning, Reception, and the Use of the Classics: Theoretical Considerations in the Chinese Context” Zhang Longxi   Chapter 16 “The Sociology of Reception” Gisèle Sapiro   Bibliography Index 

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Brenda Deen Schildgen is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. The author of more than fifty articles focused on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as Chaucer, Augustine, and biblical hermeneutics, her most recent books include Divine Providence, A History: Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante; Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Art and Architecture in Europe; and Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature. Ralph Hexter is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Caliornia, Davis, USA, where he also serves as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. He has published on Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, the reception of Ovid, and the intersections of the history of scholarship and sexuality.

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