"A terrific new translation--Murnaghan's Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers." --Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College"This NCE will appeal to a wide range of teachers who are in search of an authoritative text of a play that is both highly provocative and in need of interpretive support." --Michelle Zerba, Louisiana State University
"A terrific new translation--Murnaghan's Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reade...
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice. Seeking to transcend the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers found in their classical models both a venerable literary heritage and a discourse of sublimity through which to articulate...
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were...
The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects. This volume explores the reception of classical antiquity in childhood from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Britain and the United States, focusing on myth and historical fiction in particular.
The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects. This volume explores the r...
