Rosario Moreno Soldevila

Daniel Nisa Cáceres

Classical Reception and the Rewriting Turn in Contemporary Women’s Fiction raccoglie diverse contributi accademiche nel campo degli studi sulla ricezione classica, concentrandosi in particolare sulla rivitalizzazione e la rielaborazione delle narrazioni mitologiche nella fiction contemporanea di scrittrici anglofone, tra cui Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker, Victoria Grossack e Alice Underwood, Natalie Haynes, Emily Hauser, Rosie Hewlett e Madeline Miller. Queste autrici interagiscono con i miti antichi non come narrazioni fisse o fonti di ispirazione, ma come testi dinamici che riflettono e plasmano le preoccupazioni in evoluzione del pensiero femminista moderno. Rielaborando figure come Clitennestra, Andromaca, Medusa e Penelope, queste scrittrici creano nuovi spazi per la soggettività femminile, le dinamiche relazionali, la sorellanza, l’agency e la resistenza, contribuendo a una continua riorganizzazione delle identità di genere e dei valori sociali. Le opere esplorate in questo volume non sono semplici revisioni letterarie; esse rappresentano atti di riappropriazione, offrendo letture sfumate del mito che parlano delle questioni urgenti del nostro tempo: disuguaglianza di genere, violenza sessuale e guerra, giustizia ecologica e il potere stesso della narrazione. Il volume si apre con un’introduzione teorica che definisce e contestualizza questo movimento come il rewriting turn, con l’ultimo capitolo che presenta uno studio sulle riscritture femminili nel polisistema letterario spagnolo, invitando studiosi e lettori a un dialogo globale sul ruolo delle scrittrici nella creazione dei miti. Il libro si conclude con un’intervista a Emily Hauser, scrittrice e studiosa dil mondo classico. Insieme, i capitoli di questo volume evidenziano il potere trasformativo—addirittura rigenerativo—della ricezione classica nella scrittura femminile contemporanea. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-530-6

Classical Reception and the Rewriting Turn in Contemporary Women’s Fiction

Alberto Marina Castillo

Juan Fernández Valverde

A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams is the first dictionary of all the characters and personal names found in the work of Marcus Valerius Martialis, containing nearly 1,000 comprehensive entries. Each of them compiles and analyses all the relevant information regarding the characters themselves, as well as the literary implications of their presence in Martial’s poems. Unlike other works of this kind, the book encompasses not only real people, whose positive existence is beyond doubt, but also fictional characters invented by the poet or inherited from the cultural and literary tradition. Its entries provide the passages of the epigrams where the respective characters appear; the general category to which they belong; the full name (in the case of historical characters); onomastic information, especially about frequency, meaning, and etymology; other literary or epigraphical sources; a prosopographical sketch; a discussion of relevant manuscript variants; and a bibliography. Much attention is paid to the literary portrayal of each character and the poetic usages of their names. This reference work is a much needed tool and is intended as a stimulus for further research.

A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams

Cristina Rosillo-López

Fernando Lozano

Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio

This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare. It analyses these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective that is chiefly based on Classical Studies. The book is divided into two sections. The first section explores Martin’s characters as the mainstay of both the novels and the TV series, since the author has peopled his universe with three-dimensional intriguing characters that resonate with the reader/audience. The second section is devoted to violence and warfare, both pervasive in the Game of Thrones universe. In particular, the TV series’ depiction of violence is explicit, going beyond the limits that have seldom been traversed in primetime television i.e. the execution of Ned Stark, the “Red Wedding” and “Battle of the Bastards”. In the Game of Thrones universe, violence is not only restricted to warfare but is an everyday occurrence, a result of the social and gender inequalities characterising the world created by Martin.

Heroes, Villains and Pulsions

Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities Vol. 2

Cristina Rosillo-Lopez

This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that characterises Martin’s world. The book is divided into three thematic sections. The first section focuses on space—both the urban and natural environment—and the interaction between human beings and their surroundings. The second section follows different yet complementary approaches to Game of Thrones from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. The final section addresses the linguistic and translation implications of the Game of Thrones universe, as well as its didactic uses. This book is paired with a second volume that focuses on the characters that populate Martin’s universe, as well as on one of the ways in which they often interact—violence and warfare—from the same multidisciplinary perspective.

Time, Space and Culture

Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities Vol. 1

This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the fourth book of Martial's epigrams: it focuses on literary matters and realia in order to clarify each poem and to offer an aesthetic account of the book as a whole.

A Commentary

Martial, Book IV

Martial

"This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the fourth book of Martial's epigrams. The introduction discusses its date of publication, major themes (Domitian, literature, death), the arrangement and form of the epigrams, and some issues concerning the transmission of the text. Of special note is the author's study of the structure of the book. The commentary, preceded by the Latin critical text and an English translation, aims to provide readers with as much pertinent information as possible to enable them to fully comprehend the epigrams. Attention is paid to style and literary tradition, as well as to realia. Both each individual epigram and the book as a whole are studied as finely accomplished works of art."--Jacket.

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