Research Catalog

Title

Classics and national cultures [electronic resource] / edited by Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Details

Additional Authors

• Stephens, Susan A.
• Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966-

Description

1 online resource (xii, 373 p.) : ill.

Series Statement

[Classical presences]

Uniform Title

• Classics and national cultures (Online)
• Classical presences.

Subject

• Civilization > History
• Nationalism
• Civilization, Classical

Note

• Series statement from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-359) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan' : Ireland, the classics, and independence / Nicholas Allen -- Marooned Mandarins : Freud, classical education, and the Jews of Vienna / Richard H. Armstrong -- Classical culture for a classical country : scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy / Giovanna Ceserani -- Classical education and the early American democratic style / Joy Connolly -- Mimicry and classical allusion in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men / Emily Greenwood -- Editing the nation : classical scholarship in Greece, c.1930 / Constanze Güthenke -- Eastern European nations, Western culture, and the classical tradition / Asen Kirin -- The cosmic race and a heap of broken images : Mexico's classical past and the modern Creole imagination / Andrew Laird -- Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek literature / Vassilis Lambropoulos -- How to build a national epic : Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland / Fernanda Moore -- Heraclitus of the Highveld : the universalism (ancient and modern) of T.J. Haarhoff / Grant Parker -- Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews / James I. Porter -- Contestatory classics in 1920s China / Haun Saussy -- The new Alexandrian library / Susan A. Stephens -- Translatio and difference : Western classics in modern Japan / Yasunari Takada -- Alexander Sikandar / Phiroze Vasunia.

LCCN

2010922492

OCLC

ssj0000409817

Title

Classics and national cultures [electronic resource] / edited by Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Series

[Classical presences]

Classical presences.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-359) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Stephens, Susan A.

Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966-