The Aeneid and the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vergil's Epic in the 20th and 21st Centuries

ISBN-13: 9781032008684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 270 str.

J. R. O'Neill; Adam Rigoni

Opis

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid which aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "why should we still think about the Aeneid ?"

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Introduction: The Aeneid and the Modern World (J.R. O’Neill and Adam Rigoni); Part I: The Aeneid and Modern Fiction; 1. Empire and Exile: Kipling’s Vergil (Michael Stanford); 2. Shining Light onto Vergilian Shadows in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (Christian Lehmann); 3. Yehuda Amichai’s "The Times My Father Died" (1959): A Jewish Aeneas in Flight from the Holocaust (Giacomo Loi); 4. Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit: Contemporary Italian Writers Remembering the Aeneid (Filomena Giannotti); 5. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy and the Aeneid: Lyra as an Anti-Aeneas (Babette Puetz); Part II: The Aeneid and Modern Political Discourse and Culture; 6. The Patriotic Singer: Christopher Pearse Cranch’s American Aeneid (Paul Hay and John Hay); 7. The Aeneid and the Politics of National History (Tedd A. Wimperis); 8. Daedalus in DC: Vergil and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (J.R. O’Neill); Part III: The Aeneid and Contemporary Trauma and Identity; 9. A Matter of Time: Traumatic Temporality in Vergil’s Aeneid (Danielle Bostick); 10. Dislocated Identities: The Aeneid and the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Nancy Ciccone); 11. To Know Thyself in a World Undone: Apocalypse and Authenticity in the Aeneid (George Saad); Part IV: The Aeneid into the Future; 12. The Aeneid for the Next Generation: An Empirical Study (Frances Foster); 13. Aeneas, Anthropocene, and Apocalypse, or, Aeneas in Space (Evander Price)