Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gibson, A. G. G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191057977
• Artikelnr.: 43075066

Autorenporträt

A. G. G. Gibson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Andrew Bennett: 'It's readable all right, but it's not history':
Robert Graves' Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical
Fiction
* 2: Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman: Claudius in the Library
* 3: Sheila Murnaghan: Homer's Daughter: Graves' Vera Historia
* 4: Shaun Tougher: Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count
Belisarius - Genesis, Gender, and Truth
* 5: Jon Coulston: Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius
and his World
* 6: Sonia Sabnis: The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior
* 7: Philip Burton: 'Essentially a moral problem': Robert Graves and
the Politics of the Plain Prose Tradition
* 8: Sibylle Ihm: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths and Matriarchy
* 9: Vanda Zajko: Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths
* 10: Isobel Hurst: Freedom to Invent: Graves' Iconoclastic Approach to
Antiquity
* 11: John Burnside: Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert
Graves
* 12: Tom Palaima: Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of
Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance
* 13: Jonathan Perry: 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves' Augustus in
Mussolini's Italy
* 14: A. G. G. Gibson: Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I,
Claudius
* 15: Mick Morris: Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and
the Mass Media
* 16: Amanda Wrigley: The Anger of Achilles (1964): A Prize-Winning
'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves
* Bibliography
* Index