Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION DISPLACING ANTIQUITIES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY -- Outline of volume -- Notes -- PART I DISPLACING POINTS OF ORIGIN -- CHAPTER 1 MORE 'T' VICAR? REVISITING MODELS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION -- Revisiting the original post -- Theoretical engagements -- Methodological challenges -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 SAXA LOQUUNTUR ? ARCHAEOLOGICAL FANTASIES IN WILHELM JENSEN'S GRADIVA -- Introduction -- Gradiva and its readers: the archaeologist, the psychoanalyst, and the witch -- Archaeological fantasies -- A place for fantasy? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3 TIME TRAVEL AND SELF-REFLEXIVITY IN RECEPTIONS OF HOMER'S ILIAD -- "Watch the scanners": Doctor Who and the televised Trojan War -- "Meanwhile, on another dimensional plane at the self-same time": Marvel's Thor Annual #8: Thunder Over Troy -- Travelling through time: classical reception as science fiction -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 MONUMENTS AND TRADITION IN JACK MCDEVITT'S THE ENGINES OF GOD -- Exo-archaeology and the monuments -- The decipherment of Linear C -- 'Hercules' versus the Monument-Makers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART II DISPLACED IN SPACE -- CHAPTER 5 'LYRA'S ODYSSEY' IN PHILIP PULLMAN'S HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY -- 'Lyra's Odyssey' -- Echoes of the Telemachy -- Homecoming and displacement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 DISPLACING NOSTOS AND THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO IN HAYAO MIYAZAKI'S SPIRITED AWAY -- Off the path and into Greek myth -- Miyazaki's connection to Greek myth -- Displacement in Spirited Away -- Reading the Odyssey in Spirited Away -- Complicated characters -- Greek Underworld myths in Spirited Away -- Chihiro and Orpheus -- Conclusion -- Notes.

CHAPTER 7 "THE NEAREST TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE THING": CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS IN HELEN OYEYEMI -- Introduction -- The Icarus Girl and other Icarian doubles -- Houses of death or katabasis : The Opposite House and White is for Witching -- Persephone in The Opposite House -- White is for Witching and Eurydice's haunted-house tale -- Conclusion: Mr. Fox and an Ovidian Oyeyemi? -- Notes -- PART III DISPLACED IN TIME -- CHAPTER 8 DYNAMIC TENSIONS: THE FIGURE(S) OF ATLAS IN THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW -- Introduction -- Atlas in Greco-Roman antiquity -- "Yours in perfect manhood": (Charles) Atlas in the twentieth century -- Body building/building bodies: Frankenstein -- Atlas(es) in the Rocky Horror Picture Show -- Notes -- CHAPTER 9 DRINKING BLOOD AND TALKING GHOSTS IN DIANA WYNNE JONES'S THE TIME OF THE GHOST -- Introduction -- Acquiring and preparing the blood -- The blood and the dead -- The living and the dead -- Drinking the blood -- Between life and death -- Notes -- CHAPTER 10 FINDING CASSANDRA IN SCIENCE FICTION: THE SEER OF AGAMEMNON AND THE TIME-TRAVELLING PROTECTOR OF CONTINUUM -- Empowered: "What if she digs deeper?" -- Knowledge and identity: "That is need to know" -- Suffering: "Are you really going to roll the dice with her life?" -- Conclusion: "Clarity is a luxury in this business" -- Notes -- PART IV DISPLACING GENRE -- CHAPTER 11 CLASSICAL RECEPTION AND THE HALF-ELF CLERIC -- Level 1: A wandering monster -- Level 2: The nature of RPG narrative -- Level 3: Monster Manuals -- Level 4: The blood of Medusa -- Level 5: Deities and demigods -- Notes -- CHAPTER 12 THE GODS PROBLEM IN GENE WOLFE'S SOLDIER OF THE MIST -- Notes -- CHAPTER 13 THE DIVINE EMPEROR IN VIRGIL'S AENEID AND THE WARHAMMER 40K UNIVERSE -- The Divine Emperor of Virgil -- Making the God-Emperor of mankind: The Horus Heresy.

Fast forward: The God-Emperor long after the Horus Heresy -- Future imperfect: Spinning the web of 40K -- Notes -- PART V EPILOGUE: FINDING A PLACE IN DISPLACEMENT -- CHAPTER 14 JUST YOUR AVERAGE TUESDAY-MORNING MINOTAUR -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.

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