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A companion to the Classical tradition

A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries. Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts. Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory
eBook, English, 2007
Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2007
History
1 online resource (xv, 491 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781405184991, 9781405172028, 9781405122948, 9780470996775, 140518499X, 1405172029, 1405122943, 0470996773
729862031
Middle Ages / by Jan Ziolkowski
Renaissance / by Craig Kallendorf
Baroque / by Ingrid Rowland
Neo-classicism / by Thomas Kaminski
Romanticism / by Bruce Graver
The Victorian era / by Norman Vance
Modernism / by Kenneth Haynes
Africa / by William Dominik
Central-Eastern Europe / by Jerzy Axer, with the assistance of Katarzyna Tomaszuk
France / by Philip Ford
Germany and German-speaking Europe / by Volker Riedel
Iberian Peninsula / by Luisa López Grigera
Italy / by David Marsh
Latin America / by Andrew Laird
Low Countries / by Gilbert Tournoy
Scandinavia / by Minna Skafte Jensen
United Kingdom / by Richard Jenkyns
United States / by Ward Briggs
Reception studies / by Charles Martindale
Postcolonial studies / by Lorna Hardwick
Gender and sexuality / by Alastair J.L. Blanshard
Politics / by Katie Fleming
Psychology / by Fabio Stok
Modern and post-modern art and architecture / by Gail Levin
Film / by Karl Galinsky
English