Classics and the Uses of Reception

Abstract

List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Thinking Through (Charles Martindale). 1. Provocation: The Point of Theory (William W. Batstone). Part I. in Theory. 2. Literary History as a Provocation to Studies (Ralph Hexter). 3. Discipline and Receive or, Making an Example out of Marsyas (Timothy Saunders). 4. Text, Theory, and (Kenneth Haynes). 5. Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of (Genevieve Liveley). 6. Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader (Craig Kallendorf). 7. Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation (Vanda Zajko). 8. Passing on the Panpipe: Genre and (Mathilde Skoie). 9. True Histories: Lucien, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of (Tim Whitmarsh). 10. The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative (Miriam Leonard). 11. The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation (Katie Fleming). Part II. Studies in Reception. 12. The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics (Alexandra Lianeri). 13. Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century (Richard F. Thomas). 14. Foucault's Antiquity (James I. Porter). 15. Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Among Non-Elite Groups (Siobhan McElduff). 16. Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros (Helen Kaufmann). 17. Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance (Lorna Hardwick). 18. Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia (Pantelis Michelakis). 19. and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo (Elizabeth Prettejohn). 20. The Touch of Sappho (Simon Goldhill). 21. (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon or, Philosophy in Paint (John Henderson). 22. Afterword: The Uses of Reception (Duncan F. Kennedy). Bibliography. Index.