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Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature
Hardcover
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
ISBN13: 9781137565433
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 2 2017
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.28 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
Table of Contents
Introduction: Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature
Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter
Epic Receptions
Chapter 1 Epic Worlds
Ralph Hexter
Chapter 2 Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents
Wai Chee Dimock
Chapter 3 Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalbá as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision
Arturo Arias
Chapter 4 Reception Configurations: The case of European Epic in India
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Chapter 5 Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
Zina Giannopoulou
Greek Philosophical Receptions
Chapter 6 Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge
Jan Szaif
Chapter 7 'Now we must consider that some of the ancients discovered the truth' Reception and Antiquity in Ancient Neoplatonism Michael Griffin
Chapter 8 Reading and Commenting on Aristotle's Rhetoric in Arabic
Uwe Vagelpohl
Drama and Receptions
Chapter 9 A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn's Medea and the Introduction of the 'Sumerian' to Modern German Literature
Adam Siegel
Chapter 10 American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted
Robert Borgen
Chapter 11 Tamil Translation, French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot's La Devadassi (1868)
Kristen Bergman Waha
Lyric Receptions
Chapter 12 Goethe's Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten: Vernacular Universal, Erotica Sinica, and the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit Chunjie ZhangChapter 13 The Mediterranean Metaphor
Kevin Batton
Chapter 14 Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry
Michelle Yeh
Politics and Sociology of Reception
Chapter 15 Meaning, Reception, and the Use of the Classics: Theoretical Considerations in the Chinese Context
Zhang Longxi
Chapter 16 The Sociology of Reception
Gisèle Sapiro
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