Classics and National Cultures (Classical Presences)

Synopsis

The Texts, Ideas, Images, And Material Culture Of Ancient Greece And Rome Have Always Been Crucial To Attempts To Appropriate The Past In Order To Authenticate The Present. They Underlie The Mapping Of Change And The Assertion And Challenging Of Values And Identities, Old And New. Classical Presences Brings The Latest Scholarship To Bear On The Contexts, Theory, And Practice Of Such Use, And Abuse, Of The Classical Past. This Book Seeks To Understand The Ways In Which National Cultures Have Engaged With Classical Greece And Rome, And How Classical Cultures Have Contributed To The Idea Of Nations And Nationalisms. What Impact Does The Classical Past Have On Ideas Of The Nation, Nationhood, Nationality, And What Effect Does The National Space Have On Classical Culture? How Has Classical Culture Been Imagined In Various National Traditions, What Importance Has It Had Within Them, And For Whom? In This Volume Of Essays An International Team Of Scholars Investigate These Vexed Relationships. A Key Feature Of The Collection Is The Expanded Range Of National Cultures, Old And New, That Are Considered In Relation To Classics--not Just Those Of Germany, Greece, And Italy, But Also China, India, Mexico, Japan, And South Africa, Among Other Regions. Classics And National Cultures Poses New Questions For The Study Of Antiquity And For The History Of Nations And Nationalisms. --book Jacket. 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. Edited By Susan A. Stephens And Phiroze Vasunia. Series Statement From Jacket. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.