{"product_id":"antipodean-antiquities-9781350183254","title":"Antipodean Antiquities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art.Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the \u003ci\u003eLord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eXena: Warrior Princess\u003c\/i\u003e franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a timely book, given current debates about teaching ‘western civilisation’ in our universities. It represents a coming-of-age particularly in Australian classical reception studies, and it will surely be a stimulus to bring less descriptive and more theoretically innovative approaches to bear on the myriad forms of classical reception that saturate Australasia. * The Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eMarguerite Johnson has curated a formidable and impressively diverse collection of essays … The volume showcases a rich variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, and has the added benefit of presenting familiar classical materials in distinctly unfamiliar contexts, replete with their own unique social and cultural pressures and local systems of scholarship. * Greece \u0026amp; Rome *\u003cbr\u003eA well-rounded study highlighting the importance of Greco-Roman history and culture for many Australians and New Zealanders, from convicts to colonisers, ranging from novelists to poets to painters and film-makers. This is exemplary Classical Reception practice. -- Maxine Lewis, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures                                                                                                                              List of Contributors  Introduction (Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia)  \u003cb\u003ePart 1: The Colonial Past – Classical Influences in White Australasia\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): \u003ci\u003eBlack Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Rachael White (University of Oxford, UK): \u003ci\u003eAustralia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Theatre – Then and Now \u003c\/b\u003e 3. Laura Ginters (University of Sydney, Australia): \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon comes to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e 4. John Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): \u003ci\u003eSalamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): \u003ci\u003eWesley Enoch's Black Medea\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia): \u003ci\u003eWhat Women Critics Know that Men Don't\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand\u003c\/b\u003e 7. Geoffrey Miles (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): \u003ci\u003eJames K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): \u003ci\u003eClodia Through the Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities\u003c\/b\u003e 9. Nicolas Liney (University of Oxford, UK): \u003ci\u003eParilia Poscor\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eDavid Malouf Remembers the Parilia (Fasti 4.721)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Elizabeth Hale (University of New England, Australia): \u003ci\u003eImaginative Displacement: Classical Reception in the Young Adult Fiction of Margaret Mahy\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Babette Pütz (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): \u003ci\u003eClassical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August, and Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney, Australia): \u003ci\u003eDisplaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart 5: Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas\u003c\/b\u003e 13. Sarah Midford (La Trobe University, Australia): \u003ci\u003ePainting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan’s Gallipoli Series\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Melinda Johnston (independent scholar) and Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig, Germany): \u003ci\u003eOf Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical World\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart 6: Antiquity on the Australasian Screen\u003c\/b\u003e 15. Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia): \u003ci\u003eTemporal Turbulence: Reception Studies(') Now \u003c\/i\u003e 16. Hannah Parry (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): \u003ci\u003eClassical Epic in Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth Trilogies \u003c\/i\u003e 17. Leanne Glass (University of Newcastle, Australia): \u003ci\u003eShifting Paradigms in Ben Ferris’ Penelope\u003c\/i\u003e  Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863212130647,"sku":"9781350183254","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350183254.jpg?v=1759919964","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/antipodean-antiquities-9781350183254","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}