|aTradition, translation, trauma :|bthe classic and the modern /|cedited by Jan Parker, Timothy Mathews.
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|aOxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c2011.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|gPrologue /|rSusan Bassnett --|gIntroduction:|tImages of tradition, translation, trauma... /|rJan Parker --|gPt. I.|tHanding on, making anew, refusing the classic:|tProemion : translating a paean of praise /|rFrederick Ahl --|g1.|tFuzzy connections : classical texts and modern poetry in English /|rLorna Hardwick --|g2.|tPope's Trojan geography /|rDavid Hopkins --|g3.|tSophoclean journeys /|rPat Easterling --|g4.|tCicero : gentleman and orator : metaphors in eighteenth-century reception /|rMatthew Fox --|g5.|tEating Eumolpus : Fellini Satyricon and dreaming tradition /|rRichard Armstrong --|g6.|tAfter Freud : Sophocles' Oedipus in the twenty-first century /|rRachel Bowlby --|gpt. II.|tModernity and its price : nostalgia and the classic:|g7.|tThe price of the modern : Walter Benjamin and the counterfactuals /|rChristopher Prendergast --|g8.|tComposite cultures, chaos wor(l)ds : relational poetics, textual hybridity, and the future of opacity /|rJonathan Monroe --|g9.|tTime, free verse, and the gods of modernism /|rIan Patterson --|g10.|tLost in nostalgia : modernity's repressed other /|rWen-chin Ouyang --|gpt. III.|tThe time of memory, the time of trauma:|g11.|tNo consolidation : the lamenting voice and public memory /|rGail Holst-Warhaft --|g12.|tThe abject eidos : trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra /|rJane Montgomery Griffiths --|g13.|tWhat's Hecuba to him ... that he should weep for her? /|rJan Parker --|g14.|tModernism's nostalgics, nostalgia's modernity /|rGeorge Rousseau --|g15.|tMediating trauma : how do we read the Holocaust memoirs? /|rPiotr Kuhiwczak --|g16.|tHistory as traumatic memory: Das Africas /|rHelena Buescu --|g17.|tReading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti /|rTimothy Mathews --anyone look in both directions at once? /|rTimothy Mathews --|gEpilogue /|rDerek Attridge.
Drawing, as it does, on Classical, Modernist, Translation, Reception, Comparative Literary, and Intercultural Studies, the volume has the potential to suggest critiques of practice in these disciplines but also concerns that are common to ...