'Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art.
'Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.' (Publication summary)
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction (Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia)
Part 1: The Colonial Past – Classical Influences in White Australasia
1. Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand
2. Rachael White (University of Oxford, UK): Australia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth Century
Part 2: Theatre – Then and Now
3. Laura Ginters (University of Sydney, Australia): Agamemnon comes to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney
4. John Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Salamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann
5. Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Wesley Enoch's Black Medea
6. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia): What Women Critics Know that Men Don't
Part 3: Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand
7. Geoffrey Miles (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): James K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon
8. Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Clodia Through the Looking Glass
Part 4: Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities
9. Nicolas Liney (University of Oxford, UK): Parilia Poscor - David Malouf Remembers the Parilia (Fasti 4.721)
10. Elizabeth Hale (University of New England, Australia): Imaginative Displacement: Classical Reception in the Young Adult Fiction of Margaret Mahy
11. Babette Pütz (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August, and Lullaby
12. Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney, Australia): Displaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero Trilogy
Part 5: Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas
13. Sarah Midford (La Trobe University, Australia): Painting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan's Gallipoli Series
14. Melinda Johnston (independent scholar) and Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig, Germany): Of Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical World
Part 6: Antiquity on the Australasian Screen
15. Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia): Temporal Turbulence: Reception Studies(') Now
16. Hannah Parry (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Epic in Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth Trilogies
17. Leanne Glass (University of Newcastle, Australia): Shifting Paradigms in Ben Ferris' Penelope
Notes
Bibliography
Index
