Robert Graves and the classical tradition [electronic resource] / edited by A.G.G. Gibson.
Gibson, A. G. G. (Alisdair G. G.), editor.
2016
PR6013.R35 Z852 2016eb
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Title
Robert Graves and the classical tradition [electronic resource] / edited by A.G.G. Gibson.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191801594 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053 doi
Call Number
PR6013.R35 Z852 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.912
Summary
This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths.
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This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gibson, A. G. G. (Alisdair G. G.), editor.
Series
Classical presences.
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Introduction / A.G.G. Gibson
1. 'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves's Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction / Andrew Bennett
2. Claudius in the Library / Duncan Kennedy and Ellen O'Gorman
3. Homer's Daughter: Graves's Vera Historia / Sheila Murnaghan
4. Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius
Genesis, Gender, and Truth / Shaun Tougher
5. Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World / Jon Coulston
6. The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior / Sonia Sabnis
7. 'Essentially a Moral Problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Translation / Philip Burton
8. Robert Graves's The Greek Myths and Matriarchy / Sibylle Ihm
9. Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves's The Greek Myths / Vanda Zajko
10. Freedom to Invent: Graves's Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity / Isobel Hurst
11. Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves / John Burnside
12. Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance? / Tom Palaima
13. 'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves's Augustus in Mussolini's Italy / Jonathan Perry
14. Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius / A.G.G. Gibson
15. Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media / Mick Morris
16. The Anger of Achilles: A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves / Amanda Wrigley
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Index.

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