Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)

Preface ; Introduction: Displacing Antiquity in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brett M -- Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part I: Displacing Points of Origin. 1 -- More 'T, ' Vicar? Revisiting Models and Methodologies for Classical Receptions in Science Fiction (Tony Keen) ; 2 -- Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Jesse Weiner) ; 3 -- Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer's Iliad (Claire Kenward) ; 4 -- Monuments and Tradition in Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God (Laura Zientek) ; Part II: Displaced in Space. 5 -- Lyra's Odyssey in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ortwin Knorr) ; 6 -- Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Suzanne Lye) ; 7. 'The nearest technically impossible thing': Classical Antiquity in the Novels of Helen Oyeyemi (Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part III: Displaced in Time. 8 -- Dynamic Tensions: The Figure(s) of Atlas in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stephen B -- Moses and Brett M -- Rogers) ; 9 -- Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones's The Time of the Ghost (Frances Foster) ; 10 -- Finding Cassandra in Science Fiction: The Seer of Agamemnon and the Time-Traveling Protector of Continuum (Jennifer Ranck) ; Part IV: Displacing Genre. 11 -- Classical Reception and the Half-Elf Cleric (C -- W -- Marshall) ; 12 -- The Gods Problem in Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist (Vincent Tomasso) ; 13 -- The Divine Emperor in Virgil's Aeneid and the Warhammer 40K Universe (Alexander McAuley) ;Part V: Epilogue: Finding a Place in Displacement. 14 -- Just Your Averange Tuesday-Morning Minotaur (Catherynne M -- Valente).

• | Author: Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Dec 27, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1350068942
• | ISBN-13: 9781350068940