The Aeneid and the Modern World

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vergil's Epic in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Herausgeber: O'Neill, J R; Rigoni, Adam

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid which aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "why should we still think about the Aeneid ?"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781032008684
• ISBN-10: 1032008687
• Artikelnr.: 62569563

Autorenporträt

J.R. O'Neill is a Senior Lecturer and Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, USA, where he teaches classics. He is also affiliated with Arizona State University's program in veterans studies and is the founding director of Barrett's Theatre of Difference Project. His research and teaching interests include Latin literature and Roman cultural history. He earned his PhD in classics from the University of Southern California, USA. Adam Rigoni is a Senior Lecturer and Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, USA. He earned his JD and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan, USA. His work has appeared in Legal Theory, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Journal of Philosophical Logic, and Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Aeneid and the Modern World (J.R. O'Neill and Adam
Rigoni); Part I: The Aeneid and Modern Fiction; 1. Empire and Exile:
Kipling's Vergil (Michael Stanford); 2. Shining Light onto Vergilian
Shadows in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Christian
Lehmann); 3. Yehuda Amichai's "The Times My Father Died" (1959): A Jewish
Aeneas in Flight from the Holocaust (Giacomo Loi); 4. Forsan et Haec Olim
Meminisse Iuvabit: Contemporary Italian Writers Remembering the Aeneid
(Filomena Giannotti); 5. Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy and
the Aeneid: Lyra as an Anti-Aeneas (Babette Puetz); Part II: The Aeneid
and Modern Political Discourse and Culture; 6. The Patriotic Singer:
Christopher Pearse Cranch's American Aeneid (Paul Hay and John Hay); 7. The
Aeneid and the Politics of National History (Tedd A. Wimperis); 8. Daedalus
in DC: Vergil and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (J.R. O'Neill); Part III:
The Aeneid and Contemporary Trauma and Identity; 9. A Matter of Time:
Traumatic Temporality in Vergil's Aeneid (Danielle Bostick); 10. Dislocated
Identities: The Aeneid and the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Nancy Ciccone); 11.
To Know Thyself in a World Undone: Apocalypse and Authenticity in the
Aeneid (George Saad); Part IV: The Aeneid into the Future; 12. The Aeneid
for the Next Generation: An Empirical Study (Frances Foster); 13. Aeneas,
Anthropocene, and Apocalypse, or, Aeneas in Space (Evander Price)