Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture.
Dominas, Konrad.
Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (344 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Antiquity in Popular Literature -- Antiquity Is Now -- Between the Clichés and Speculative Re-Narration -- What Undergoes Changes and What Remains Unchanged, or How to Research Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture on the Model of the Trilogy Troy by David Gemmell -- The Ancient Quotations in Marek Krajewski's Detective Novels -- Olympus Shown by Grzegorz Kasdepke and Katarzyna Marciniak, or How We Should Present Mythology to the Youngest Audience -- The Gladiatorial Games in Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -- Part II: Antiquity in Popular Culture -- Nec Hercules Contra Plures -- Antique Motifs in the Design of Fountain Pens -- Ancient Topics in Anti-Napoleonic Caricature (1796-1821) -- Sacrum Versus Profanum -- C://Hercules in Computer Games/A Heroic Evolution -- Pop-Pharaohs - "Reversed Pharaohs" -- Egyptianizing Motifs in the Products of Popular Culture Addressed to Younger Recipients -- Part III: Antiquity in the Cinema -- In Theatro Cinematographico Latine Loquentes -- The Art of Safe Speech: Schünzel's Amphitruo -- A Thrill for Latinists -- The Wise Road-Builders and the Empire of Evil -- The Oedipus Myth in Selected Films -- Ancient Rome, Anything Goes -- Contributors -- Index.
Spiritus flat ubi vult academicus. It seems evident that the study of antiquity and the study of antiquity's persistence will continue to be distributed ubique terrarum. This pleasing circumstance was exemplified in January 2014, at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, an institution named after Poland's influential nineteenth-century epic and lyric poet. As part of an ongoing series of such academic meetings, the university hosted the Seventh International Conference on Fantasy and Wonder. Its topic was Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture. Several of the papers given in Poznań appear in this volume in revised form. They demonstrate the continuing presence of the past, or, to put it slightly differently, the importance of the past in the present and, by extension, for the future.
9781443893183
Antiquities in popular culture--Congresses.
Electronic books.
HM621 -- .A585 2016eb
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Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (344 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Antiquity in Popular Literature -- Antiquity Is Now -- Between the Clichés and Speculative Re-Narration -- What Undergoes Changes and What Remains Unchanged, or How to Research Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture on the Model of the Trilogy Troy by David Gemmell -- The Ancient Quotations in Marek Krajewski's Detective Novels -- Olympus Shown by Grzegorz Kasdepke and Katarzyna Marciniak, or How We Should Present Mythology to the Youngest Audience -- The Gladiatorial Games in Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -- Part II: Antiquity in Popular Culture -- Nec Hercules Contra Plures -- Antique Motifs in the Design of Fountain Pens -- Ancient Topics in Anti-Napoleonic Caricature (1796-1821) -- Sacrum Versus Profanum -- C://Hercules in Computer Games/A Heroic Evolution -- Pop-Pharaohs - "Reversed Pharaohs" -- Egyptianizing Motifs in the Products of Popular Culture Addressed to Younger Recipients -- Part III: Antiquity in the Cinema -- In Theatro Cinematographico Latine Loquentes -- The Art of Safe Speech: Schünzel's Amphitruo -- A Thrill for Latinists -- The Wise Road-Builders and the Empire of Evil -- The Oedipus Myth in Selected Films -- Ancient Rome, Anything Goes -- Contributors -- Index.
Spiritus flat ubi vult academicus. It seems evident that the study of antiquity and the study of antiquity's persistence will continue to be distributed ubique terrarum. This pleasing circumstance was exemplified in January 2014, at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, an institution named after Poland's influential nineteenth-century epic and lyric poet. As part of an ongoing series of such academic meetings, the university hosted the Seventh International Conference on Fantasy and Wonder. Its topic was Antiquity in Popular Literature and Culture. Several of the papers given in Poznań appear in this volume in revised form. They demonstrate the continuing presence of the past, or, to put it slightly differently, the importance of the past in the present and, by extension, for the future.
9781443893183
Antiquities in popular culture--Congresses.
Electronic books.
HM621 -- .A585 2016eb
306