{"product_id":"greek-mythic-heroines-in-brazilian-literature-and-performance-9789004678460","title":"Greek Mythic Heroines in Brazilian Literature and Performance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle, and Alcestis - in Brazilian literature and stage performance. The collection addresses the work of many innovative authors, some of them great names of Brazilian literature, such as Jorge Andrade and Nelson Rodrigues, who are influential in this specific area of classical reception and well known by modern audiences. This unique volume is the product of collaboration of many scholars with different affiliations under the coordination of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), two of the most prestigious universities in Brazil for the study of Classical and Reception Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Maria de Fátima Silva and Tereza Virgínia Barbosa    Part 1: Rewriting Ancient Greek Myths  Section 1: Antigone  1 Antigone’s Myth in Brazilian Theater: Brief Notes   Renato Cândido da Silva and Orlando Luiz de Araújo    2 Antigone – the Eternal Return   Gilson Moraes Motta    3 Pedreira das Almas (Quarry of the Souls), by Jorge Andrade   Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza    4 As Confrarias (The Fraternities) by Jorge Andrade:  A Path to Freedom   Andreia Garavello Martins and Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão    5 Maria das Almas, by Rodrigo Estramanho de Almeida. A Tropical and Vicentian Antigone   Carlos Morais    6 Ismene, the Princess of Thebes and the (Post-)modern Páthos   Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa    Section 2: Medea  7 Castro Alves: Medea in the Slave Quarters   Carlos Eduardo de Souza Lima Gomes and  Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa    8 Nelson Rodrigues’ Anjo Negro (Black Angel) or the Mirror Image of Euripides’ Medea   Sônia Aparecida dos Anjos    9 “I Killed Your Children, I Felt Hatred and Passion for You”:  Euripides in Rodrigues   Fernando Santoro Moreira    10 Submission and Transgression: A Black Medea in Brazil   Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, Marcos Antônio Alexandre and  Adélia Silva Carvalho    11 Drop of Water  Euripides’ Medea and Its Brazilian Adaptation: A Brief Comparison   Luisa Severo Buarque de Holanda    12 From Exile to Exile: A Dialogue between Euripides and Clara de Góes in the Play Medea en Promenade   Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva and Orlando Luiz de Araújo    13 Jocy de Oliveira’s Medea: A Poetic Gesture by a Strange Foreigner – Kseni   Fábio Henrique Viana, Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva  and Manuela Ribeiro Barbosa    Section 3: Electra  14 Electra in Terra Incognita: An Analysis of Lady of the Drowned by  Nelson Rodrigues   Antonio Carlos Hirsch    Section 4: Perfect Heroines: Alcestis  15 The Invisible Power of Death. Let the Lady in, by  Jacyntho Lins Brandão   Jorge Deserto    Section 5: Bacchae  16 Recycling and Profanation in the Dramatic Aesthetics of Flávia,  Cabeça, Tronco e Membros (Flavia, Head, Trunk and Limbs) by  Millôr Fernandes   Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa and Alice Carvalho Diniz Leite    Part 2: Translating and Performing the Classics  17 Convergent Interpretations in Divergent Translations: Brazilian Translations of Antigone and the Juridical Reading of the Play   Flávia Almeida Vieira Resende and Ana Ribeiro Grossi Araújo    18 The Construction of Antigone in Klássico (com K) (Klassic (with K)):  A Dialogical Process   Flávia Almeida Vieira Resende and Sara del Carmen Rojo de la Rosa    19 Reading, Translating and Staging Antigone with the Help of  Hölderlin’s Insights   Kathrin Rosenfield    20 Translating Antigone for a Brazilian Stage Production   Lawrence Flores Pereira    21 Ói Nóis Aqui Traveiz (Look at Us Here Again): Utopia and Contradiction in the Voices of Passion and Death in Antigone and Medea   Felipe Cordeiro and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa    22 A Contemporary Medeia by Fátima Saadi: A Pop-culture Adaptation   Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza    23 DeadzoneMedea and the Experimental Space of Misery   Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza    24 The Dynamics of a Brazilian Collective Appropriation of Euripides’ Medea: The ΤRUΠΕRSΑ Experiment   Maria António Hörster and Delfim F. Leão    25 Transgression\/Tribute: Love … (Anti-academic Pro-witchcraft  Manifesto without Conceptual Rigor of my Western Side That Is Unknown to Euripides)   Sara Rojo and Felipe Cordeiro    26 From Aeschylus’ Oresteia to the Brazilian Oresteia of 2012–2013:  The Translation and Reinvention of the Tragedy   Alexandre Costa    Conclusion  Selected Bibliography and References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210870907223,"sku":"9789004678460","price":136.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/greek-mythic-heroines-in-brazilian-literature-and-performance-9789004678460","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}