Classics and National Cultures

NOTE EDITORE

Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? This collection of essays by an international team of experts tackles the vexed relationship between Classics and national cultures, presenting essays on many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms.

SOMMARIO

1 - 'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence2 - Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna3 - Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy4 - Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style5 - Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men6 - Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.19307 - Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition8 - The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination9 - Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature10 - How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland11 - Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff12 - Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews13 - Contestatory Classics in 1920s China14 - The New Alexandrian Library15 - Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan16 - Alexander Sikandar

AUTORE

Susan A. Stephens is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Phiroze Vasunia is Reader in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199212989
• Collana: Classical Presences
• Dimensioni: 241 x 29.7 x 163 mm Ø 744 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 5 in-text illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 400