Barbara goff and michael simpson (4 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Gut. XI, 227 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht bestoßen, Vorderschnitt und Fußschnitt leicht angeschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand / slightly scuffed, fore-edge and bottom edge slightly soiled, otherwise good condition. - Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Game Plan Barbara Goff 1. Pythagoras and the Origins of Olympic Ideology Nigel Spivey 2. True Heroes and Dishonourable Victors at Olympia David Gilman Romano 3. To Give Over Ones Heart: Pindar, Bataille and the Poetics of Victory Damian Stocking 4. Epideictic Oratory at the Olympic Games Eleni Volonaki 5. Living in the Shadow of the Past: Greek Athletes during the Roman Empire Stephen Brunet 6. Gilbert West and the English Contribution to the Revival of the Olympic Games Hugh Lee 7. James Barrys Crowning the Victors at Olympia: Transmitting the Values of the Classical Olympic Games into the Modern Era William Pressly 8. The Race for a Healthy Body: The Ancient Greek Physical Ideal in Victorian London Debbie Challis 9. Nervis Palazzo and Palazzetto dello Sport: Striking a Delicate Balance between Past and Present in 1960 Rome Ann Keen 10. Trailing the Olympic Epic: Black Modernity and the Athenian Arena, 2004 Michael Simpson 11. Pindar at the Olympics: The Limits of Revivalism Armand DAngour Afterword: London 2012 Tessa Jowell Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780715639306 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. viii+401pp. Fine condition. Jacket shows some shelfwear, including a nick at the top left corner of its rear face. Prior owner wrote his name in ink on the flyleaf. Pages are crisp, bright and entirely free of markings. Spine tight, binding sound. Boards perfect, edges and corners unbumped. Dimensions: 6.5x9.5x1.25 inches. Weight: 752 grams. Bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine. (If you order this from outside the United States, we are likely to request an additional payment to help cover the postage.) Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers. …

Condizione: Sehr gut. VIII, 401 p., ill. Somewhat rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. - Among those Greek tragedies adapted by dramatists across the African continent and diaspora, why do the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle figure so prominently? How can plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, claim to articulate the postcolonial moment? Capitalizing on the resources of classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, Crossroads in the Black Aegean develops detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem from several locations across the African diaspora. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, and that of the Greek originals, in relation to that tradition. Beyond these oedipal reflexes, the adaptations offer alternative African models of cultural transmission. The book also develops a new analytic concept, the 'Black Aegean', with which to theorize the ways in which colonialist and postcolonial discourses have staged various encounters between ancient Greece and contemporary Africa. This construct mediates the debates about the Black Atlantic and Black Athena through the plays. Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a theoretically astute and timely intervention in several fields, which deals with complex interdisciplinary material in an exceptionally lucid manner. It provides new theoretical apparatus within reception studies, and helps to re-balance postcolonial literary studies away from a preoccupation with pure theory, just as its dramatic and theatrical analyses help to correct an earlier over-investment in the novel. ISBN 9780199217182 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 765 Original cloth with dust jacket.…

1st Ed., 1st Imp. Large 8vo. [xii] + 401pp. + [iii]. Frontis., 5 figures. Very good in d/w. Classical Presences. US$67.