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 Simon,
Anne / Fleming, Katie (Eds.)
THE RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN GERMAN LITERATURE
2013 · ISBN
978-3-86205-388-9
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210 S., kt. · EUR 26,—
LONDON GERMAN STUDIES
XIV
Institute of
Modern Languages Research · School of Advanced
Study · University of London
This volume, based on a series of lectures
co-organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Institute of
Germanic & Romance Studies in 2011 and 2012, examines the enduring relevance
of Classical material, its openness to multi-layered readings and its use to
express contemporary concerns, in other words, its re-presentation, or
making ‘present’, in German literature. The essays in this volume, which
range from the Middle Ages to the present and deal with genres as diverse as
poetry and comic books, epigrams and novels, signal that one reason for the
enduring relevance of Classical myth lies in its fluidity: its canonicity
lends authority but is supple enough to allow adaptation to forms that
‘speak’ most potently to a given age or audience. These changing cultural
contexts help shape the new works of art that mutate out of the old,
inviting ‘readers to think more deeply about how to shape society in such a
way that culture on a higher level can accommodate and enhance human
nature’.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements · List of Contributors · Introduction
Chapter 1
Wolfgang Harms
The Recollection and Metamorphosis of Antiquity in German Literature of
the High and Late Middle Ages
Chapter 2
Nigel Harris
Monsters, Pictures and Translations. Some Observations on the Reception
of Virgil in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 3
T. J. Reed
Replacing Ancient Gods. Weimar Classicism and After
Chapter 4
Charlie Louth
Hölderlin’s Augury: Birds and Bird-Flight in his Ancient-Modern World
Chapter 5
Ricarda Schmidt
Kleist and the Dark Side of Antiquity: Reading Euripides in Modern Times
Chapter 6
Heike Bartel
The Black Medeas of Paul Heyse and Hans Henny Jahnn in the Context of
German Colonialism and Weimar Racial Policies
Chapter 7
Martin Vöhler
Correcting Ancient Myths. Brecht’s Approach to Antiquity
Chapter 8
Manuel Baumbach
Leonidas and the Reception of the Persian War in German Post-War
Literature
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