Research Catalog

Title

Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world / edited by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Anja Wieber.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
• Wieber-Scariot, Anja

Description

x, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts

Uniform Title

Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.

Subject

• Orientalism in literature
• Orientalism in art
• History, Ancient > Queens
• History, Ancient > Women
• History, Ancient > Women > In popular culture
• Women in popular culture > History
• Literature
• Asia > Orient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-306) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Filippo Carlà-Uhink & Anja Wieber -- Semiramide in India. The Reception of an Ancient Oriental Warrior Queen in Baroque Opera / Kerstin Droß-Krüpe -- Carian Queens from the Orient to Greece and Back: The Reception of Artemisia I and Artemisia II / Irene Berti -- The Persian Boy, the Bactrian Girl and the Man from Macedon - Gender and Orientalisms in Mary Renault's Alexander the Great-Trilogy / Ann-Cathrin Harders -- Drypetis in Fact and (Fan) Fiction / Sabine Müller -- Exotic, Erotic, Heroic? Women of Carthage in Western Imagination / Marta Garia Morcillo -- In the Name of Cleopatra: Emma Hamilton and Catherine Stepney Make Their Mark / Mary Hamer -- Colon(ial)izing Fulvia: (Re)Presenting the Military Woman in History, Fiction, and Art / Peter Keegan -- The Oriental Empresses of Rome. Severan Women in Literature and the Performative Arts / Martijn Icks -- The Palmyrene Queen Zenobia in Syrian TV - Inverting Orientalism for Modern Nationhood? / Anja Wieber -- The Dark Gaze of Galla Placidia / Christopher Bishop -- Theodora A.P. (After Procopius) / Theodora A.S. (After Sardou): Metamorphoses of an Empress / Filippo Carlà-Uhink -- From Historical Enigma to Modern Role Model: The Reception of Sāsānid Queen Šīrīn in Contemporary Iranian Cinema / Irene Madreiter -- Instead of a Conclusion: Gynaecocracy in the Orient, Oriental Seclusion in the Occident / Beate Wagner-Hasel.

Call Number

JFE 20-4824

ISBN

• 1350050105
• 9781350050105
• 9781350050129 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350050112 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1101260091

Title

Orientalism and the reception of powerful women from the ancient world / edited by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Anja Wieber.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts

Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-306) and index.

Added Author

Carlà-Uhink, Filippo, editor.

Wieber-Scariot, Anja, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781350050129

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4824